Lead Network Development Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Development – Cloud Operations /
Mid-Senior Level /
Remote
Coupa makes companies operate smarter and grow faster. Our leading AI-driven platform connects and optimizes sourcing, purchasing, supply chains, and financial management. More than 3,000 global organizations large and small trust Coupa to transform operating margins, increase efficiencies and growth, optimize cash, and reduce risk.
Coupa Software is a high-growth SaaS company and market leader in the BSM (Business Spend Management) space. We are in a major growth phase and wish to expand our Network Reliability Engineering team to help transform and scale our leading cloud platform.
Joining the team as a Lead Network Development Engineer, will provide you the opportunity to make a huge impact and take your career to the next level. You will bring an automation-first approach to your day-to-day activities, architecting solutions for a massive-scale cloud networking infrastructure through code and have a strong sense of service ownership and accountability. You will be supported through in-house training and certification on our Coupa University platform and through subscriptions with leading learning partners.
Coupa operates an open and autonomous work culture, where employees are challenged and critical thinking is encouraged. We operate an inverted organization structure, meaning we support our employees, not manage them. This is core to our culture and we do everything we can to foster an entrepreneurial spirit within our team as we strive for personal and organizational excellence.
As a Lead Network Development Engineer you will:
- Design, deploy, automate, and support network solutions in a massive-scale public cloud environment (AWS and Azure)
- Have experience with application and network security tooling, such as next-generation firewalls and IDS/IPS
- Be experienced in deploying Palo Alto Network Firewall, Fortinet, CheckPoint, AWS, and Azure Firewalls for enterprise organizations
- Have a comprehensive knowledge of networks and protocols, including TLS, DNS, BGP, OSPF
- Develop roadmaps using established public cloud design standards
- Participate in design reviews and provide network support and leadership to the Engineering organization
- Bring a development mindset in areas such as managing network infrastructure as code, elimination of toil and a strong sense of accountability and service ownership
- Evaluate, specify, implement and support network performance, capacity and availability monitoring tools
- Help to grow the global network function, onboarding new network development engineers and providing technical leadership and setting the team direction
- Stay up to date with the latest developments in network infrastructure, networking with peers and attending industry events
- Participate in an on-call rotation as required
- Occasional travel as needed to perform the job function
We’re looking for a Lead Network Development Engineer who:
- 10+ years of professional experience, some of which is in an enterprise SaaS organization
- Is an expert in Firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS, DNS, BGP, OSPF, AWS and Azure network constructs
- Has operated in both data center and cloud environments and has deployed both physical network and security devices as well as cloud networking solutions such as web application firewalls
- Can code using Python, Java, Ruby or equivalent languages
- Is familiar with deploying cloud network infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation or has experience with Chef & Ansible
- Is confident in their ability to own and deliver projects and issues to resolution
- Has a passion for excellence, is a natural problem solver, and a critical thinker. You should enjoy digging deep to understand issues and like solving hard problems
- Has a solid understanding of networking systems and protocols, particularly as they pertain to a public cloud environment
- Wants to work in a collaborative and supportive work environment
It would also be great (but not essential) for you to have:
- DNS and Mail hosting experience from a provider perspective
- Aviatrix Product experience
- Security and certificate management knowledge
- Relevant operating system, networking and cloud certifications
The estimated pay range for this role is as follows:
• Salary range will vary based on the physical location of the candidate. For candidates based in California (Bay area): $174,250 - 205,000
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At Coupa, we’re building a great company that is laser-focused on three core values: ensuring customer success with an obsessive and unwavering commitment to making customers successful, focusing on results with a relentless focus on delivering results through innovation and having a bias for action, and striving for excellence with our commitment to a collaborative environment infused with professionalism, integrity, passion, and accountability.
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