# Staff Network Engineer, App Platform at Scale

- Company: Scale
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Index and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.scale.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai/jobs/4730337005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scale-staff-network-engineer-app-platform/

## About the role

As SGP has grown in scale and complexity, networking has become a critical architectural discipline of its own. Today, teams routinely encounter the same hard problems — VPC design, routing, ingress and egress, private connectivity, service exposure, address-space constraints, firewall policies, and cross-environment communication — but solve them differently depending on the deployment.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of network engineering experience, including designing and operating production networks in cloud environments
- Deep expertise in cloud networking on at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP: VPC design, peering, Transit Gateway/hub-and-spoke topologies, private connectivity (PrivateLink, Private Service Connect), and DNS
- Kubernetes networking depth — CNI, ingress, NetworkPolicy, service mesh (Istio/Envoy) — this is where most of our real incidents live
- Strong fundamentals in TCP/IP, BGP, routing, firewalls, VPN (site-to-site and client), and TLS
- Experience with edge/CDN and traffic-management platforms such as Cloudflare
- Has defined a network standard or reference architecture that other teams adopted, and enforced it through design review

Tags: Applications Platform Engineering