
Network Engineer – Real-Time Infrastructure
Deepgram
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $220,000 per year
About the role
- Architect and optimize Deepgram's global network for real-time audio streaming, minimizing latency across geographic regions
- Design and manage CDN and edge computing strategies to bring processing closer to end users
- Configure and maintain BGP routing, including peering relationships and route optimization for multi-cloud and bare metal environments
- Implement and tune load balancing solutions that intelligently distribute traffic across heterogeneous infrastructure (cloud, bare metal, GPU clusters)
- Build and optimize multi-cloud networking architectures spanning AWS, other cloud providers, and on-premises data centers
- Design and maintain bare metal networking including top-of-rack switching, spine-leaf architectures, and high-bandwidth GPU interconnects
- Develop latency measurement, monitoring, and optimization tooling to continuously improve network performance
- Plan and execute network capacity expansions as Deepgram's traffic and infrastructure footprint grow
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure network designs support both real-time inference and large-scale training workloads
- Establish network security best practices including segmentation, DDoS mitigation, and access control policies
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in network engineering, including design, implementation, and operations
- Deep expertise with BGP, OSPF, and other dynamic routing protocols in production environments
- Hands-on experience designing and operating load balancing solutions at scale
- Strong understanding of CDN architectures and content delivery optimization
- Experience with cloud networking, specifically AWS VPC design, transit gateways, peering, and hybrid connectivity
- Practical experience with bare metal networking -- switch configuration, VLAN design, physical infrastructure
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP/2 / HTTP/3 performance optimization
- Experience with network monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis tools
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Annual wellness stipend
- Mental health support
- Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous paid parental leave
- Flexible schedule
- 12 Paid US company holidays
- Quarterly personal productivity stipend
- One-time stipend for home office upgrades
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Tax Savings Programs
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Hard Skills & Tools
network engineeringBGPOSPFload balancingCDN architecturesAWS VPC designbare metal networkingTCP/IPDNSHTTP/2