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Manager, Cloud Networking

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Who We Are

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world.  With 32 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions.  In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation.  Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.

Vultr Cares

  • 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans. 

  • 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting

  • Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year

  • 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan 

  • Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year

  • $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year

  • Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month

  • Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month

  • Company paid Wellable subscription

 

Join Vultr

Vultr’s Cloud Networking team builds the network features and automation that power our global cloud platform — VPC, routing, NAT, internet gateways, LB/ingress, overlay/underlay integrations, network APIs, and the dataplane abstractions that our customers rely on. This team sits at the intersection of network engineering, software development, and platform automation.This role requires both deep technical capability and strong leadership. You will routinely dive into EVPN-VXLAN behavior, VPC/NAT/GW design, API integrations, controller implementations, and fabric-level routing workflows while also coaching engineers, running design reviews, shaping architecture, and managing the team's growth. You’ll be the type of manager who can reason about packet flows in the morning and mentor an engineer on career progression in the afternoon. We’re looking for a Manager, Cloud Networking to lead the engineers building the systems that define how customers connect workloads, how packets flow across our EVPN fabrics, and how next-generation features integrate into our global architecture. This team owns the control-plane and data-plane logic for cloud networking, from the ToR to the API. You’ll guide a highly technical group that ships production features, maintains global-scale networking automation, and collaborates with nearly every engineering group at Vultr.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing Cloud Networking engineering team, providing regular coaching, setting clear expectations, and helping engineers reach the next stage of their careers.
  • Create a healthy engineering culture centered on ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and long-term craftsmanship in networking software.
  • Drive strong engineering fundamentals - testing, validation, reproducibility, rollback safety, change control, observability, and operational readiness
  • Own the Cloud Networking roadmap, including VPC, routing, NAT/IGW, firewall/security groups, and customer-facing networking features.
  • Manage and mentor a team of network-minded software engineers building automation, controllers, and dataplane implementations for scale.
  • Drive development of networking APIs and control-plane logic, ensuring correctness, scalability, and straightforward integration into Vultr’s platform and orchestration layers.
  • Lead the architecture and implementation of EVPN-VXLAN fabrics, overlay construction, VRF segmentation, route distribution, and dataplane policy enforcement.
  • Own the automation stack for network provisioning and lifecycle management - Network device configuration generation, device onboarding flows, controller logic, and intent application.
  • Partner with Platform Engineering, Orchestration, Compute, and GPU/AI teams to integrate networking behavior into provisioning workflows and cluster operations.
  • Define the model and schema for new network constructs (e.g., VPC features, routing modes, Gateway/NAT capabilities, private connectivity, cross-region constructs).
  • Ensure quality and consistency across network software — testing, validation, rollbacks, canaries, structured CI/CD, reproducibility, auditability.
  • Work with Architecture to align feature design with long-term fabric strategy (EVPN, VTEP lifecycle, multi-tenant segmentation, QoS, RDMA coexistence).
  • Coordinate with NetDevOps to build operational tooling, validate configurations, improve telemetry, and close automation gaps.

 

Qualifications

  • Experience managing and growing engineering teams - hiring talent, fostering development, and building a safe but high-performing environment for the team.
  • Deep experience with modern data center + cloud networking: EVPN-VXLAN, L3 multi-tenancy, VRFs, routing policy, NAT, load balancing, firewalling.
  • Experience building or leading networking software - Python, Go, or Rust controllers, orchestration flows, gRPC/REST APIs, daemons integrating with Linux datapath or hardware switches.
  • Hands-on knowledge of Linux networking: netlink, iptables/nftables, namespaces, routing stacks, kernel dataplane behavior.
  • Working familiarity with Junos EVO, Cumulus Linux, SONiC, or similar open-networking systems.

 

Compensation

$175,000 - $195,000

 

This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.

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