Sr. VoIP Solutions Engineer

Who We Are:

At Bandwidth, your music matters when you are part of the BAND.  We celebrate differences and encourage BANDmates to be their authentic selves.  #jointheband

What We Are Looking For:

We’re looking for a Sr. VoIP Solution Engineer. We’re seeking somebody who is diligent, has an amazing eye for detail and is always looking for patterns in their work for opportunities to optimize or automate If your idea of fun is losing track of time while geeking out over simplifying the complex and a love for using creativity to build elegant and well documented solutions, we’d like to talk to you.

What You'll Do:

• You’re going to scale and simplify our world.
• You’ll be a member of our VoIP team, and a contributing voice in your team’s design deployment, troubleshooting and maintenance of various tools and services that support Bandwidth’s worldwide voice network.
• You’ll collaborate with peers to build and refactor VoIP networks in a scalable, reliable and repeatable way.
• You’ll lead the charge on the next evolution of Bandwidth's global voice network.
• You’ll also look critically at what we’re building and how we’re building it, and you’ll originate ideas and activities that advance our craft.

What You Need:

• While years of experience is an imperfect measure, you’ve spent 2+ years as a VoIP Specialist in a carrier network
• You have a keen understanding of SIP, RTP and other protocols related to inter-carrier VoIP calling
• You have identified and solved scaling/capacity problems between complex VoIP networks
• You should be well-versed in DevOps standards and enthusiastic about staying at the forefront of the industry by implementing AI-powered solutions
• You are very comfortable working in and troubleshooting Linux
• You have experience with instrumentation, metrics, and observability
• You are used to working closely with developers, site reliability engineers and operational teams to communicate the nuances of a complex network
• You are comfortable solving problems with code, automating tasks is second nature.
• You’ve worked down the stack and are familiar with the IP networks that underpin VoIP networks.
• You’re familiar with the general use of RDBMs like MySQL or Postgres
• You have a track record of identifying, distilling requirements and resolving problems/creating solutions
• You’re passionate about overall product quality and leading your team to increase it

Bonus Points:

• You have experience working with vendor solutions like Ribbon and AudioCodes and/or open-source VoIP applications like Asterisk, Freeswitch, Kamailio, or Opensips.
• You rely heavily on Python and Ansible to enable your success
• You’re familiar with the general use of RDBMs like MySQL or Postgres
• You have leveraged AWS or another cloud platform to deploy VoIP applications
• You are a resourceful person with a creative mindset
• You are highly proficient in an additional language to English.

The Whole Person Promise:

At Bandwidth, we’re pretty proud of our corporate culture, which is rooted in our “Whole Person Promise.” We promise all employees that they can have meaningful work AND a full life, and we provide a work environment geared toward enriching your body, mind, and spirit. How do we do that? Well…

• 100% company-paid Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage for you and your family with low deductibles and low out-of-pocket expenses.
• All new hires receive four weeks of PTO.
• PTO Embargo. When you take time off (of any kind!) you’re embargoed from working. Bandmates and managers are not allowed to interrupt your PTO – not even with email.
• Additional PTO can be earned throughout the year through volunteer hours and Bandwidth challenges.
• “Mahalo moments” program grants additional time off for life’s most important moments like graduations, buying a first home, getting married, wedding anniversaries (every five years), and the birth of a grandchild.
• 90-Minute Workout Lunches and unlimited meetings with our very own nutritionist.