Network Engineer

Ready is looking for a hands-on Network Systems Engineer to help architect and scale the Hypercube—our proprietary distributed infrastructure platform. You’ll be responsible for building high-reliability networking systems while also writing software to automate, monitor, and optimize their performance. This is an ideal role for a systems thinker who thrives at the intersection of network engineering and software development.

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