Role Overview
The Staff Network Engineer owns the design, deployment, and operational health of Zoom's global corporate network. This is a senior IC role for an engineer who is equally comfortable deep in a config and driving cross-team engineering decisions.
What You Will Do
Design and operate enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructure, manage global BGP peering, VLAN segmentation, and Layer 2 topology, administer firewall policy, Zero Trust remote access, and 802.1X network access control, and build automation to reduce toil.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate brings a network engineering mindset that goes beyond keeping the lights on — someone who is constantly looking for ways to make the network more programmable, more observable, and easier to operate at scale.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience
- Strong TCP/IP fundamentals and packet-level troubleshooting skills
- Production BGP experience: policy, prefix filtering, and peering
- Solid Layer 2 skills: 802.1Q VLANs, spanning tree, LACP
- 802.1X / NAC experience in an enterprise environment
- Firewall administration experience (Palo Alto or equivalent)
- Zero Trust / remote access platform experience (Zscaler, Prisma Access, GlobalProtect, or equivalent)
- Juniper networking experience (EX, QFX, SRX, or MX or equivalent)
- Aruba wireless experience (or equivalent)
- Network monitoring and observability experience (SNMP, NetFlow, syslog, or equivalent tooling)
Benefits
- base salary
- bonus
- equity value
- at least 5 days to apply
- window of at least 5 days for remote work
- hybrid approach centered around offices and remote work environments
- award-winning workplace culture
- commitment to delivering happiness
- variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health
- support work-life balance
- contribute to their community in meaningful ways
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