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Network Engineer, Connectivity & Strategy

Fluidstack· Development
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Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$162k - $202k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Network Engineer role focusing on external connectivity planning and strategy for Fluidstack's global, large-scale AI compute infrastructure. Own backbone capacity, carrier relationships, and connectivity roadmap to support gigawatt-scale data centers and accelerator clusters.

Responsibilities

  • Own external connectivity: carriers, dark fiber, internet exchanges, and cloud interconnects across the fleet.
  • Plan backbone capacity between sites years ahead of the traffic that will fill it.
  • Negotiate technical terms with carriers and fiber providers alongside sourcing.
  • Own the connectivity roadmap: diversity, latency, and cost engineered deliberately.

Qualifications

  • You've engineered carrier and long-haul connectivity at scale.
  • You've procured dark fiber and lit services and know where the contracts hide risk.
  • You plan capacity with data and buy ahead of need.
  • You hold carriers to SLAs with escalation paths you built yourself.
  • Bonus: Long-haul and subsea systems. DWDM. Peering strategy. Fiber route analysis.

Skills

Required:External connectivity planningCarrier negotiationsDark fiber / lit services procurementCapacity planningSLAs and escalation management
Last updated Sep 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI

Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months. We're leading the deployment of Anthropic's $50B compute build out.

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