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Lead Software Engineer – Infrastructure Agents (Go/Linux Networking)

Netris
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/16/2026

Netris is a leading Network Automation, Abstraction, and Multi-Tenancy (NAAM) platform powering

next-generation AI infrastructure. Neoclouds, GPU cloud providers, Telcos, and Sovereign AI operators use Netris to automate networking for GPU clusters ranging from thousands to over 100,000 GPUs.

In close collaboration with NVIDIA and other leading infrastructure companies, Netris software enables cloud-provider-grade automation, multi-tenancy, and large-scale AI network operations for modern AI datacenter environments.


This is an opportunity to join a highly technical engineering team building foundational infrastructure for some of the largest and most demanding AI networking environments in the industry.


The Role

We are looking for a senior infrastructure engineer to lead the design, architecture, and development of distributed agents running across servers, switches, and SmartNIC/DPU environments.

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role with ownership across architecture, implementation, reliability, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep systems engineering expertise, strong Linux networking knowledge, and experience building resilient distributed infrastructure components operating in large-scale environments.


What You’ll Do

  • Lead architecture and development of high-performance infrastructure agents written in Golang
  • Build systems managing L2/L3 networking, routing, switching, VXLAN/EVPN overlays, NAT, ACLs, and policy enforcement
  • Design scalable telemetry, observability, and monitoring pipelines
  • implement resilient communication mechanisms using gRPC and event-driven architectures
  • Ensure agents operate efficiently across servers, switches, and SmartNIC/DPU environments
  • Optimize systems for performance, resiliency, scalability, and low resource utilization
  • Participate in architecture reviews and mentor engineers


What We’re Looking For

  • 5 years of infrastructure or systems engineering experience
  • Strong production experience with Golang
  • Deep understanding of Linux networking internals
  • Experience with BGP, VXLAN/EVPN, routing, NAT, and ACLs
  • Experience building distributed systems and agent-based architectures
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in production environments


Nice to Have

  • Experience with Kubernetes CNI implementations
  • Experience with SmartNIC / DPU platforms
  • Experience in hyperscaler or infrastructure companies
  • Experience with AI infrastructure or GPU networking


Why Join Netris

  • Work on foundational infrastructure powering next-generation AI datacenters
  • Influence architecture and engineering direction
  • Join a highly technical, fast-moving startup environment
  • Solve challenging distributed systems and networking problems



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