IREN
IREN
IREN develops and operates high-performance AI data centers and GPU cloud services across North America. Its infrastructure is built for demanding AI training and inference workloads, combining turnkey data centers, colocation for customer-owned hardware, and managed access to GPUs. The company’s vertically integrated model includes facility operations and 24/7 onsite support, with data centers powered by renewable energy and renewable energy certificates. IREN’s growing infrastructure portfolio spans locations in the United States and Canada, supporting large-scale AI capacity across operational, under-construction, and development-stage sites.

Staff Network Development Engineer

Architect network automation, telemetry, and AI operations software for IREN’s renewable data centers and GPU clusters across North America, Europe, and APAC.

Description

  • Shape the architecture and roadmap for IREN’s network automation platform, covering source of truth, configuration generation, deployment, validation, and automated remediation.
  • Build core services and write and review production code in Python or Go.
  • Establish engineering standards for network software, including system design, testing, code review, CI/CD, releases, and reliability.
  • Lead large-scale network telemetry, observability, and analytics design to automate operations.
  • Guide AI and machine learning for network operations, including anomaly detection, troubleshooting assistants, and automated change reviews.
  • Work with network architecture, security, and engineering leaders to make the network software-defined from design through operations.
  • Safeguard automated production changes and lead software-related incident reviews.
  • Mentor senior engineers and strengthen the team’s network software engineering capabilities.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience as a senior or staff software, network development, or site reliability engineer working with large data center, cloud, or hyperscale networks.
  • Expertise in software engineering with Python or Go.
  • Demonstrated success designing and delivering production distributed systems, services, and APIs.
  • Deep knowledge of network automation platforms, YANG data models, streaming telemetry, and closed-loop automation.
  • Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF or IS-IS, MPLS with traffic engineering, VXLAN, and EVPN.
  • Experience with large-scale HPC and AI networks.
  • Experience with Cisco, Juniper, and Arista network platforms and their programmable interfaces.
  • A clear perspective on applying AI and machine learning to network operations.
  • Ability to set technical direction, influence across teams, and coach senior engineers.
  • Experience with NVIDIA Spectrum networking, RoCE or InfiniBand, HPC, or GPU platforms is highly regarded.

Benefits

  • Base salary, annual performance incentives, and equity programs.
  • Annual incentive bonus.
  • Long-term incentive equity.
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees.
  • Company-paid coverage of 75% of dependent health insurance premiums.
  • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Optional life, critical illness, and accident coverage.
  • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with the High Deductible Health Plan.
  • Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • Access to financial planning and legal services.
  • Paid time off and paid holidays.
  • Internal skills training and advancement pathways.
  • Professional development for certifications, continuing education, or role-related training.
  • Company events and team-building activities.

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