Is the Network Engineer, Distributed Compute role remote?

No — this is an on-site role in Austin, TX, United States.

How much experience is required?

At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Network Engineer, Distributed Compute role.

Where is the role based?

Base Power Company is hiring for this position in Austin, TX, United States.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: BGP, IPsec, OSPF, SD-WAN, VLANs, VRFs.

What seniority level is this role?

Base Power Company targets senior candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Network Engineer, Distributed Compute role at Base Power Company.

Network Engineer, Distributed Compute at Base Power Company

Joblaze summary

The Network Engineer for Distributed Compute at Base Power Company is responsible for designing and managing the network architecture that connects a fleet of modular datacenters to ensure reliable and secure data flow. Key skills include extensive experience with routing protocols like BGP and OSPF, as well as familiarity with fiber networks and site-to-site connectivity solutions. This role is ideal for a seasoned professional with a strong background in production networks who is comfortable working in the field and adapting to a fast-paced startup environment.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Base Power Company's careers page September 23, 2026.
BGP appears in 0.6% of 2186 comparable senior other roles in United States; OSPF appears in 0.3% of 2186 comparable senior other roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Network Engineer, Distributed Compute role remote?: No — this is an on-site role in Austin, TX, United States.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Network Engineer, Distributed Compute role.
Where is the role based?: Base Power Company is hiring for this position in Austin, TX, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: BGP, IPsec, OSPF, SD-WAN, VLANs, VRFs.
What seniority level is this role?: Base Power Company targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Network Engineer, Distributed Compute role at Base Power Company.

From the original posting

About the Role

What You’ll Do

Own the end-to-end network architecture for Distributed Compute networks: site connectivity, backhaul, the fleet-wide overlay, and the interconnect within each node. Standardize the per-site network stack (routing, switching, firewall, out-of-band management) so new sites come online quickly.
Lead fiber and carrier strategy for the fleet. Evaluate dark fiber vs. lit services, and build vs. lease decisions per site cluster. Select topologies that scale with site density, and manage carrier/ISP selection, circuit ordering, and failover across fiber, fixed wireless, and cellular. You'll build on existing work with Base's fiber consultants and take over this function as it scales.
Build and operate the fleet overlay and its automation. Establish secure site-to-site and site-to-cloud connectivity, BGP routing, and traffic engineering for inference workloads. Automate configuration generation, zero-touch provisioning, and monitoring so network state is managed in code.
Instrument, secure, and support the network in practice. Track latency, throughput, packet loss, and circuit health in Base's telemetry and Grafana stack. Define segmentation between compute, battery control, and management planes, along with certificate management and audit-ready access controls. Support the first installs and site bring-ups in the field, then reduce on-site involvement as processes mature.

What You'll Bring

5+ years running production networks
Deep, hands-on routing and switching: BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs.
Experience with site-to-site connectivity at scale: SD-WAN or overlay networks (WireGuard, IPsec) across tens to hundreds of locations.
Familiarity with fiber networks and topologies
Experience procuring and managing circuits with carriers
Comfort in the field. Some of this job happens at a site in a utility territory

About the Team

Distributed Compute is Base’s program for deploying modular datacenters on top of our battery fleet, turning distributed energy sites into a distributed inference network. That scale is a networking problem as much as a power problem. Hundreds of small sites, each running GPU compute, spread across utility territories, and every one of them needs reliable, secure, high-throughput connectivity, with the fleet behaving like one coherent network. This is the first dedicated network engineering hire on the program, so the architecture decisions are still open and the constraints are real: residential and utility sites, power budgets, physical access. What you build will carry production inference traffic within months, not years.

Our Values

First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.

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