Software Engineer Network Automation, WAN & Edge

Mistral is seeking a Software Engineer, Network Automation to design, automate and operate resilient connectivity across data centers, cloud environments and the internet. You will own edge routing, firewalls and VPNs, and drive production-grade automation.

You should have deep WAN/edge networking experience, hands-on BGP, network-management APIs, and be ready to contribute to incident response and service improvements in a fast-growing AI infra environment.

Design and evolve resilient inter-site, cloud, and internet connectivity for large-scale AI infrastructure. Own external BGP policy and traffic engineering at the edge, including route filtering, failover, and capacity planning. Build API-driven automation for edge routing, firewalls, VPNs, carrier connectivity, and network segmentation. Coordinate with carriers, cloud connectivity providers, colocation partners, and vendors on design, provisioning, incident escalation, and service improvement. Design safe change workflows with automated validation and resilience testing, staged rollouts, observability, rollback, and recovery. Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot active WAN and edge incidents, restore service, and turn root causes into lasting improvements. Review designs and code, explain networking trade-offs, and help raise network engineering quality across the organization. Deep, hands-on WAN and edge networking experience across internet connectivity, data-center interconnect, private WAN, or cloud networking. Experience building or operating production network automation using network-management APIs and data models.