FluidStack
Network Engineer, Connectivity & Strategy
New York, NY$150k–$203kfulltimemidAdded today
About this role
Fluidstack is building massive AI compute infrastructure and seeks a Network Engineer to own external connectivity strategy across their expanding data center fleet. You'll manage carrier relationships, plan multi-year backbone capacity, and engineer connectivity solutions at gigawatt scale.
What you'll do
- Own external connectivity including carriers, dark fiber, internet exchanges, and cloud interconnects across the fleet
- Plan and procure backbone capacity between sites years ahead of traffic demand
- Negotiate technical terms and SLAs with carriers and fiber providers
- Develop and execute the connectivity roadmap balancing diversity, latency, and cost
- Manage carrier escalations and hold providers accountable to contracted SLAs
- Lead capacity planning with data-driven forecasting and proactive procurement
What they're looking for
- Carrier and long-haul connectivity engineering at scale
- Dark fiber and lit services procurement
- Long-haul and subsea network systems
- DWDM and optical networking
- Capacity planning and data-driven forecasting
- Carrier contract negotiation and SLA management
- Peering strategy and fiber route analysis
- Network architecture and topology design
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FluidStack
FluidStack builds AI infrastructure at scale, developing data centers and warehouse operations designed to handle gigawatt-capacity compute deployment. The company is hiring for warehouse engineers, data center operations specialists, product engineers, and people leaders to support rapid infrastructure expansion across multiple sites.
- Website
- fluidstack.io
Likely interview questions
- Describe a time you engineered carrier connectivity at scale—what were the key technical and business trade-offs?
- Walk us through how you would plan backbone capacity years ahead of actual traffic demand for a rapidly growing network.