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Founded in 2015, DriveNets modernizes the way service providers, cloud providers, and hyperscalers build networks. Supporting the largest network in the world, more than half of AT&T’s backbone traffic runs on DriveNets’ Network Cloud open disaggregated architecture.\nHaving raised $587 million in three funding rounds, DriveNets is disrupting the networking market with high-scale architectures and cloud-native platforms. We are seeking people who want to make an impact on the world’s leading communication networks and have experience building large-scale distributed systems.\nThe Group\nThe Management Plane group builds high-performance customer interfaces and core frameworks for configuring and monitoring large-scale distributed systems.\nThis includes a distributed transaction framework, large-scale operational state monitoring and telemetry, and APIs for interacting with the system’s configuration and runtime state.\nThe group serves both external customers and internal R&D teams that integrate their features into the product.\nMeeting the system’s scale and performance requirements often requires more than incremental improvements. 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