The Position

The Backbone team manages all connectivity between Twitter's data centers, Point of Presences and our cloud providers. 

• You will work with customers to understand their requirements and design qualified, simple and repeatable networks that can be automated easily in the future for deployment, scaling and operating.
• You will help troubleshoot complex issues, mitigating first and then deep diving into data to root cause and put mechanisms in place to stop reoccurrences. You will be participating in a 8x7 on-call rotation in the team.
• You will help scale the backbone via hardware refresh, transport circuits or new PoP deployments. This enables our internal and external customers to use more data rich environments while expanding the Twitter network to new countries enhancing the experience for our users to start and join conversations.
• You will help in cloud networking tasks for troubleshooting and provisioning VPC capacity.
• Forward thinking candidates will have high impact here as we look to streamline our processes, automate repeatable tasks and define new architecture that can support Twitter's growth.

Company Description

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

Additional Information

A few other things we value:

• Challenge - We solve some of the industry’s hardest problems. Come to be challenged, learn, and thrive as an engineer.
• Diversity - Diversity makes us a better organization and team. We value diverse backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.
• Work, Life, Balance - We work hard, but we believe with hard work should come balance.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

Qualifications

• 4 - 5 years of deep understanding and hands-on experience with routing protocols and configuration, specifically ISIS, BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE
• Understanding of transit relationships and Internet connectivity
• Working knowledge of large backbone and data center networks
• Detailed documentation and verbal skills
• Python, DWDM, GCP and AWS knowledge appreciated