Software Engineer Network Automation, WAN & Edge — Mistral AI
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 18 days ago
Role overview
About Mistral
- About Mistral
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What the company offers
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Application process
- Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute.
- We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems—across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector—co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.
- We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society.
- Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation.
- Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.
- We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited. The Role As a Software Engineer, Network Automation
- WAN & Edge, you will design, automate, and operate resilient connectivity between data centers, cloud environments, external networks, and the internet.
- Your work will span routing, firewalls, traffic engineering, and production troubleshooting.
Company and context
- Review designs and code, explain networking trade-offs, and help raise network engineering quality across the organization. What We’re Looking For
- Deep, hands-on WAN and edge networking experience across internet connectivity, data-center interconnect, private WAN, or cloud networking.
- A track record of taking external BGP designs from whiteboard to production and debugging them during production incidents.
- Experience integrating and troubleshooting stateful firewalls, NAT, asymmetric routing, and redundant edge designs on at least one major routing or firewall platform.
- Experience building or operating production network automation using network-management APIs and data models.
- You understand desired state and idempotency; relevant technologies might include REST, NETCONF, gNMI/OpenConfig, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language.
- You can design, test, debug, and review production systems and are willing to become productive in Go.
- Operational troubleshooting experience using routing and flow state, packet captures, link health, telemetry, and logs to diagnose production incidents.
- Clear, pragmatic communication and effective stakeholder management.
Additional details
- We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited. As a Software Engineer, Network Automation
- Networking depth and strong software-engineering judgment matter more than familiarity with any particular language, platform, or tool.
- Review designs and code, explain networking trade-offs, and help raise network engineering quality across the organization. What We’re Looking For
- You can translate technical needs into connectivity designs and provider requirements, define acceptance criteria and service-level expectations, and provide technical leadership.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes controllers, operators, or other declarative, reconciliation-based systems.
- Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.
- For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page .
Notes and original content
- We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.
- As a Software Engineer, Network Automation
- What You Will Do
- Review designs and code, explain networking trade-offs, and help raise network engineering quality across the organization.
- What We’re Looking For
- Nice to Have
- What We Offer
- Privacy Policy
Questions about this listing
What salary does Mistral AI offer for this role?
Mistral AI lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Zurich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Mistral AI offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Mistral AI during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
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