Network Engineer

Better Stack
Better Stack

IT

North America · Europe · Remote

USD 60k-250k / year + Equity

Posted on Oct 26, 2026

Network Engineer

Hardcore
Remote (North America & Europe)
Prague
$60K - $250K/year + equity
$120K - $500K/year + equity
The challenge
  • We’re building a global cloud-scale network to support our growing software products, and we need your help.
  • We operate data centers across three time zones, with more locations likely coming soon.
  • We previously outsourced our network management, but our growth now warrants a full-time in-house team that can keep pace with our fast-moving product engineering.
This might be for you if
  • You’ve operated networks at scale. Think Nx Tbps, and thousands of physical servers or more.
  • You’ve connected networks to Internet exchanges (IXs) and established private peerings.
  • You’ve mitigated DDoS attacks. Too many times.
  • You’re a pro with Arista and Dell gear. But you’ll find your way around any hardware.
  • You’re comfortable with BGP, ECMP, BFD, VRRP, VLANs, LACP, MLAG, VXLAN/EVPN, IPv6, DNS64/NAT64, CoPP, RPKI, OVN, WireGuard, GRE, QoS, MTU, conntrack, and Linux networking. You understand how packets flow through switches, routers, hypervisors, and virtual machines. And you can troubleshoot at every layer.
  • You’ve pulled off zero-downtime live migrations. And they were actually zero downtime.
  • You have a great sense of humor! You’d tell us a UDP joke, but we wouldn’t get it.
  • You have a sysadmin or engineering background and can keep pace with a team of talented engineers.
  • You’re AI-native. You’re constantly improving your Claude Code setup to work smarter.
  • You communicate clearly and confidently in English, both in writing and in conversation.
  • You hate meetings and work async-first. Slack, Notion, Loom, and e-mail for external communication.
  • Infrastructure as code is your default. Not an afterthought.
What you’ll do
  • You’ll design networks for our existing and new data center locations, across both software and hardware. You’ll help guide our hardware purchases, aiming for the best price-to-performance ratio. Anyone can pick a Juniper MX301 out of a catalog. But what will you do when you find out the lead time is a year and it costs a kidney?
  • You’ll work with Tier 1 transit providers, Internet exchanges, and other network operators to establish and optimize peering relationships.
  • You’ll monitor network stability, prevent and mitigate abuse, and optimize transit costs.
  • You’ll take part in hardware installations and deal with real-world issues.
  • You’ll be on-call for network-related issues. Don’t worry, we know a thing or two about incident management.
Who you’ll work with
  • Juraj, our CEO; Tomas, our CTO; and Veronika, our COO. All technical, all software engineers.
  • Our distributed team of stellar software engineers optimizing our products for your network.
  • Our data center team responsible for installing and debugging hardware. They move fast and get sh*t done. Picture an F1 pit crew. That’s what our data center installations often look like.
  • Generally speaking, we consider ourselves a professional sports team. Everyone aims to be the best in the world at what they do. From YC alumni to ex-Google and ex-Shopify colleagues, you’ll be in great company.
  • We hope to learn a lot from you, and we’re sure you’ll learn a lot from us, too.