Senior Network Engineer
Leidos
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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.
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Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 442 roles with salary data.
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As a Sr. Network Engineer on the Network Engineering team, you will design and operate mission-critical, high-performance data center networks that support internal operations and vehicle fleets. You will lead the architecture of redundant systems while innovating on AI-native operations to monitor network health and detect hardware anomalies. Your daily responsibilities include automating the entire network lifecycle—including provisioning, configuration management, and validation—while troubleshooting complex hardware and software issues across various topologies and protocols. The role requires expertise in Juniper, Cisco, Aruba, Arista, and NVIDIA hardware, alongside experience with Linux networking, kernel systems, high-speed optical modules, and RDMA. You must be an AI-native engineer capable of deploying and looping AI agents to automate device upgrades and optimize performance across the infrastructure to solve critical connectivity challenges for large-scale data center operations.
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Median $147000 from 81 postings across 20 companies.
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