Software Engineer Network Automation, Data Center Fabrics

Mistral
Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Munich, London, Berlin
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Technical leadership","Diagnostic skills"]

Design and build network automation systems for large-scale data center fabrics. You’ll work on leaf-spine underlays and EVPN/VXLAN overlays, translate fabric requirements into APIs and validation, and develop control-plane software that reconciles desired vs. observed network state. Build safe change workflows with observability and recovery, integrate with switch OS and management APIs, and troubleshoot incidents through an on-call rotation.

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Software Engineer Network Automation, Data Center Fabrics

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Job Summary

Design and build network automation systems for large-scale data center fabrics. You’ll work on leaf-spine underlays and EVPN/VXLAN overlays, translate fabric requirements into APIs and validation, and develop control-plane software that reconciles desired vs. observed network state. Build safe change workflows with observability and recovery, integrate with switch OS and management APIs, and troubleshoot incidents through an on-call rotation.
Location: Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Munich, London, Berlin
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and evolve leaf-spine underlays, EVPN/VXLAN overlays, and tenant connectivity for multi-tenant AI infrastructure.
  • •Translate fabric requirements and safety properties into APIs, data models, validation, and automation.
  • •Build control-plane software that reconciles desired and observed network state.
  • •Design safe change workflows with validation, dry runs, atomic updates, observability, and failure recovery.
  • •Integrate with switch operating systems and management APIs and participate in on-call incident troubleshooting and recovery.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeaveRetirementRelocationWellness StipendMeal AllowanceCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •Deep hands-on experience with Ethernet switching, IP routing, BGP leaf-spine fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, and VRF-based multitenancy.
  • •Strong judgment across fabric underlay/overlay design, scale, convergence, isolation, and failure modes.
  • •Experience building or operating production network automation (desired state, idempotency, concurrency, observability, recovery).
  • •Strong software-engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language, with willingness to become productive in Go.
  • •Experience with southbound network APIs and structured configuration such as REST, gNMI/OpenConfig, or NETCONF.
Experience:Data centersNetwork automation
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationTechnical leadershipDiagnostic skills
Tech Stack:GoKubernetesEthernet switchingIP routingBGPEVPNVXLANVRFsRESTGNMIOpenConfigNETCONFCumulus LinuxArista EOSSONiCJunosNX-OSContainerlabEVE-NGGNS3

Company Brief

Mistral
Develops state-of-the-art large language models and AI systems, offering models and developer tools for natural language understanding, generation, and enterprise AI integrations. Focuses on open research and production-ready model deployments.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2023
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