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About the role

The Network team owns the wireless backbone that connects every collar to the Halter platform, moving half-a-billion messages between the backend and collars per day! That touches LoRa-based communication protocols, cellular backhaul, the tower network itself, and the edge-to-cloud pipeline that turns radio traffic into real-time telemetry farmers and ranchers can trust. As Halter scales across new farms, regions, and terrain, this network has to scale with it — reliably, because cows don’t take days off. We're looking for a Senior Network Engineer to take ownership of the performance, reliability, and scalability of Halter's collar and tower network. You'll operate at the intersection of wireless communication protocols, tower infrastructure, and real-time data flow — diagnosing issues from the field, designing the architecture that prevents them, and setting the technical direction for how the network evolves as Halter grows. This is a senior, hands-on technical role. You'll be the person other engineers come to with the gnarliest wireless and infrastructure problems, and you'll be expected to make the calls that matter when it counts.

What you'll bring

• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale wireless networks
• A track record of owning network architecture end-to-end — not just designing it, but keeping it healthy in production, at scale, over years.
• Comfort working across the full stack of a connectivity problem: RF and antenna behaviour, tower hardware, edge devices, and the cloud systems consuming the data.
• Experience with observability and monitoring for distributed or IoT systems — you know how to make network health visible before it becomes an incident.
• Have grown other engineers by working alongside them — sharing judgment and technique, not just reviewing their output.
• Stay calm under pressure, have a low ego, and can rally a team through tough or ambiguous problems.
• A first-principles approach: you reason from the ground up rather than defaulting to what's familiar, especially in a domain — rural, outdoor, variable-terrain wireless — where off-the-shelf answers rarely fit.
• Willingness to get out on farm.
• Understanding how the network actually behaves in the field is core to doing this job well.
• Experience with mesh networking, spectrum management, or deploying infrastructure in remote or rural environments.
• Background in telemetry systems at IoT scale (thousands to millions of devices).
• Experience with provisioning automation and remote/zero-touch device management.