Deepgram

Network Engineer – Real-Time Infrastructure

Deepgram

full-time

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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