Network Systems Engineer

About your role at Ready ⚡️

• Design and deploy fault-tolerant network topologies for Ready’s Hypercube infrastructure.
• Write automation software to support network provisioning, monitoring, diagnostics, and routing.
• Collaborate with internal teams to optimize node-to-node connectivity and performance.
• Own network telemetry: visibility into throughput, latency, packet loss, and availability.
• Investigate and resolve system-wide networking issues across edge deployments.
• Build interfaces for dynamically configuring and scaling Hypercube nodes across various environments.
• Document architectural decisions, operational playbooks, and SLA guidelines.
• Stay current on protocols, transport-layer innovations, and resilient network design patterns.

A bit about you 🥇

• Degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience designing and operating IP networks, with software development exposure.
• Proficient in Python, Go, or Rust for writing systems tools or orchestration logic.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), VLANs, NAT, and DNS.
• Experience with performance debugging, packet tracing, and network observability tools.
• Familiar with container networking (CNI), overlay networks, or mesh architectures.
• Bonus: Experience with SDN, edge compute networks, or IoT connectivity.

About Ready 🚀

• Creative problem solvers approaching a legacy industry with a new point of view.
• Humble but ambitious, knowledgeable but curious, persistent but not obnoxious.
• Concise and effective in written and spoken communication.
• Comfortable working remotely.
• One team, one dream.

About what you get…

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity upside.
• Comprehensive (and ever-expanding) benefits for employees and their dependents.
• Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups.
• A chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we realize success in the United States and pursue the bolder vision of tackling the global market.
• To get away - we all convene 1-2x / year for teamwide retreats.
• We’re actively shaping our benefits program: have a say in which benefits matter to you.