Network Engineer, Distributed Compute
Base Power · Austin, TX
About this role
## Network Engineer — Distributed Compute ### 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 transforms today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. ### About the Role — What You’ll Do - **Own end-to-end network architecture** for Distributed Compute networks: site connectivity, backhaul, the fleet-wide overlay, and 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 make build vs. lease decisions per site cluster. - **Select scalable network topologies** based on site density; manage carrier/ISP selection, circuit ordering, and failover across **fiber, fixed wireless, and cellular**. - **Build and operate the fleet overlay and automation**: establish secure site-to-site and site-to-cloud connectivity, **BGP routing**, and traffic engineering for inference workloads. - **Automate configuration and operations**: 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 (Base telemetry + Grafana). - Define segmentation between compute, battery control, and management planes. - Manage certificates and audit-ready access controls. - **Support field installs and site bring-ups**, then reduce on-site involvement as processes mature. ### What You’ll Bring - **5+ years** running production networks - Deep, hands-on experience with **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 working in the field (some work occurs 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. This is a networking problem as much as a power problem: **hundreds of small sites**, each running GPU compute, spread across utility territories—each needs reliable, secure, high-throughput connectivity, with the fleet behaving like one coherent network. This role is the **first dedicated network engineering hire** on the program, so architecture decisions are still forming and constraints are real (residential + utility sites, power budgets, physical access). What you build will carry production inference traffic within months, not years. ### Notes Base is a startup—priorities shift and evolve quickly. Responsibilities may expand or change based on business needs. ### Our Values - **First Principles Thinking**: Question assumptions. Principles > rules. - **Operate at Base Pace**: Focus on what matters, act quickly, learn by doing. - **Give & Get Feedback**: Be direct, be humble, maintain a growth mindset. - **Everyone’s an Owner**: Follow through on commitments and own results. - **Strong Opinions, Loosely Held**: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information. - **Committed to the Mission**:
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