# Network Engineer, Distributed Compute at Base

- Company: Base
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Austin, TX
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Skills: Software Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/base-power/2a07a712-ae15-4e1b-87a7-375b75a1c7c7

## Description

ABOUT BASE

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.




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 be

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