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Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!\n\nRole: Network Development Engineer - Core Team\nLocation: Palo Alto, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York or Austin\nSalary Range: $154,000 to $259,000 + Equity\n_\nWho We Are:\nX serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.\nX is looking for a skilled and experienced Network Development Engineer / Senior / Staff Network Development Engineer to join its Core Networking team, bringing unique expertise in building and maintaining datacenter networks and developing network products that enable X's hyperscale computing.\nWho You Are:\nYou will take pleasure building highly scalable, resilient, performant, and thoroughly tested networks for data centers that support 100K+ each. 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