Senior Cloud Network Engineer

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 375 million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

SoundCloud is looking for a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to join our Systraf team. As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer, you will support architecting, operating, and maintaining our hybrid cloud network infrastructure. You’ll leverage your deep expertise in multi-region network topology, cloud networking, and hybrid architectures to ensure optimal performance and scalability across AWS and GCP environments.

You’ll collaborate closely with infrastructure and engineering teams across multiple time zones to automate and manage cloud infrastructure through tools like Terraform, Python, Bash, and Ansible. While your primary focus will be on cloud services, you’ll also oversee critical network operations in our data centers. Additionally, you will optimize and manage critical cloud networking services, including AWS CloudFront, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Direct Connect, Cert Manager, and Transit Gateway, ensuring seamless connectivity, security, and scalability across all cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain multi-region hybrid cloud network infrastructures across AWS, GCP, and on-premise environments, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Python, Bash, and Ansible to drive efficiency and operational consistency across cloud and on-premise resources.
• Analyze network architecture, cloud connectivity, and routing performance to identify optimization opportunities, implementing solutions to enhance reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of cloud network solutions, while maintaining alignment with organizational goals and best practices.
• Manage and secure cloud services like AWS (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Route 53), and optimize security measures using WAF/Shield, CloudFront, and other cloud-native tools.

Experience and Background:

• 5+ years of experience in network engineering, with a strong emphasis on cloud networking across AWS environments (AWS Certifications are a plus).
• Strong experience with AWS network services, including Virtual Private Cloud, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, WAF/Shield, and CloudFront.
• Extensive expertise using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Python, Ansible, and Bash to automate and streamline the management of cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
• Skilled in managing bare-metal servers, switches, routers, and data center environments, focusing on seamlessly integrating cloud solutions.
• Expertise in Linux systems and managing cloud-native load balancers and reverse proxies such as HAProxy or Envoy.
• Ability to work collaboratively across geographically distributed teams.
• Preparedness for on-call rotations to ensure the continuous availability of cloud and network services.

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
• Various snacks, goodies and 2 free lunches weekly at the office!

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.