Entry Level Network Development Engineer Jobs
New grad network development engineer jobs welcome recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where strong internship work or a hands-on lab portfolio can matter more than a lengthy resume. Most openings mix on-site and hybrid settings across Technology & Software, Retail, and E-Commerce & Online Marketplaces, with Amazon, Oracle, and TikTok actively hiring at this level now.
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Top stateWashington
Top employerAmazon
Top citySeattle, WA
Work type100% On-site
Top industryTechnology
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Manager, Network Development
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Oracle
Manager, Network Development
Abilene, Texas
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Network Development Engineer
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Amazon.com
Network Development Engineer
Arlington, Virginia
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Network Development Engineer
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Amazon.com
Network Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington
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Software Development Engineer, EC2 Network Provisioning
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Amazon Web Services
Software Development Engineer, EC2 Network Provisioning
Seattle, Washington
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Connectivity Cloud Hardware Engineer, Network Product Development
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Amazon.com
Connectivity Cloud Hardware Engineer, Network Product Development
Cupertino, California
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Manager, Network Development
Oracle·Abilene, Texas
Job functions:
2+ yrs exp.
Full Time
10,000+ employees
Job Description
Guides team in the design and development of network systems for large-scale enterprise, data center, or cloud-based environments, leading strategy for production network and collaborating with vendors and internal quality assurance (QA) teams. Manages the maintenance of advanced automation frameworks for testing and operations, guiding the team in automating network tasks and monitoring health metrics. Guides moderately complex test strategies at the team level, driving testing protocol development, break-fix validation, and compliance with standards through cross-functional collaboration. Improves network health monitoring systems based on team feedback, connects with monitoring teams for anomaly detection enhancement, offers technical leadership during support rotations, and identifies tools for frontline support. Ensures team meets milestones, mentors technical excellence, guides customer-facing incident response and root cause analysis (RCA), contributes to roadmap execution, and resolves technical issues to meet networking standards. Provides guidance on network efficiency remediation strategies and collaborates for scalable solutions and capacity planning.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
Key Responsibilities
Network Design, Development, and Validation:
Network Design, Development, and Validation:
- Offers guidance and direction on moderately complex test cases and test strategies that enhance network integrity at the team level.
- Acts as a technical resource for test practices and strategies, driving efforts towards the development of testing protocols within the team.
- Enables the team to perform break-fix validation support and post-event root cause analysis (RCA), offering solutions to resolve escalated issues and cascades lessons learned across the team.
- Guides the creation and completion of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) items.
- Attends change management and technical change advisory (TCAB) or review board meetings.
- Collaborates with stakeholders across the group (e.g., engineering, quality assurance) to explain practices and procedures needed for compliance with standards prior to deployment.
- Reviews and communicates governance and security requirements.
- Gathers team feedback to improve dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor network health, including defining metrics, trends, and thresholds to ensure service level objectives (SLOs).
- Connects with monitoring teams to communicate feedback and enhance the detection and diagnosis of network anomalies for the team.
- Offers technical leadership on support rotations, and gathers details to develop solutions for moderately complex investigations.
- Leverages incident response protocols to provide guidance on root cause investigations.
- Helps others identify appropriate tools to support the frontline support team.
- Ensures the team is able to meet critical test and deployment milestones, according to templated project plans for large projects.
- Provides mentorship and fosters technical excellence and growth across the team.
- Coaches others during standard customer-facing incident response and offers guidance on customer-facing root cause analysis (RCA).
- Contributes to the roadmap and software architecture, and helps the team execute according to documentation.
- Engages with vendors and internal teams to review, troubleshoot, and resolve product/equipment technical issues and ensure adherence to networking standards.
- Provides guidance on strategies to remediate network efficiency issues when network performance and service metrics (e.g., latency, throughput, packet loss).
- Collaborates with vendors and business partners to develop scalable solutions.
- Collaborates with capacity planning teams to plan for and forecast team initiatives, integrating performance, security, and growth models to ensure future-ready infrastructure.
- Anticipates limitations of network technology and ensures the network is architected accordingly.
- Communicates limitations to the team.
- Ensures the team is able to meet critical test and deployment milestones, according to templated project plans for large projects.
- Provides mentorship and fosters technical excellence and growth across the team.
- Coaches others during standard customer-facing incident response and offers guidance on customer-facing root cause analysis (RCA).
- Contributes to the roadmap and software architecture, and helps the team execute according to documentation.
- Engages with vendors and internal teams to review, troubleshoot, and resolve product/equipment technical issues and ensure adherence to networking standards.
- Provides guidance on strategies to remediate network efficiency issues when network performance and service metrics (e.g., latency, throughput, packet loss).
- Collaborates with vendors and business partners to develop scalable solutions.
- Collaborates with capacity planning teams to plan for and forecast team initiatives, integrating performance, security, and growth models to ensure future-ready infrastructure.
- Anticipates limitations of network technology and ensures the network is architected accordingly.
- Communicates limitations to the team.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Creates and owns the execution plan for the team's work and multiple projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines and budgets when applicable to ensure projects are completed on time and in adherence with requirements. Delegates work across the team and helps them prioritize their work. Identifies resource needs and adapts plans based on changing priorities and business needs.
- Strengthens collaborative partnerships across teams to align on expectations and shared objectives. Guides team members to build relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure effective collaboration. Practices active listening and asks insightful questions to promote an inclusive culture.
- Leads the team to identify and address moderately complex operational and/or technical issues in accordance with standard practices, providing guidance as appropriate. Directs the team to analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot moderately complex errors.
- Actively seeks learning opportunities for self and team to enhance knowledge and skills in key areas and remain current with industry advancements. Uses feedback and training to elevate personal and team skills, modeling a commitment to learning. Identifies skill gaps within the team and supports team members in learning opportunities by providing resources and fostering an environment that encourages knowledge-sharing.
- Identifies and recommends improvements as well as encourages the team to share ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Reviews and provides feedback on team member's ideas and seeks input from others on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.
- Coaches and provides direction to team members in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Facilitates goal setting discussions with team members, ensuring individual goals are aligned with broader team goals. Identifies development opportunities to help team members improve performance. Contributes to the talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, assessing promotion eligibility, and managing talent resources.
Oracle
Manager, Network Development
Abilene, Texas
Added 5d ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
2+ yrs exp.
Full Time
Job Description
Guides team in the design and development of network systems for large-scale enterprise, data center, or cloud-based environments, leading strategy for production network and collaborating with vendors and internal quality assurance (QA) teams. Manages the maintenance of advanced automation frameworks for testing and operations, guiding the team in automating network tasks and monitoring health metrics. Guides moderately complex test strategies at the team level, driving testing protocol development, break-fix validation, and compliance with standards through cross-functional collaboration. Improves network health monitoring systems based on team feedback, connects with monitoring teams for anomaly detection enhancement, offers technical leadership during support rotations, and identifies tools for frontline support. Ensures team meets milestones, mentors technical excellence, guides customer-facing incident response and root cause analysis (RCA), contributes to roadmap execution, and resolves technical issues to meet networking standards. Provides guidance on network efficiency remediation strategies and collaborates for scalable solutions and capacity planning.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
Key Responsibilities
Network Design, Development, and Validation:
Network Design, Development, and Validation:
- Offers guidance and direction on moderately complex test cases and test strategies that enhance network integrity at the team level.
- Acts as a technical resource for test practices and strategies, driving efforts towards the development of testing protocols within the team.
- Enables the team to perform break-fix validation support and post-event root cause analysis (RCA), offering solutions to resolve escalated issues and cascades lessons learned across the team.
- Guides the creation and completion of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) items.
- Attends change management and technical change advisory (TCAB) or review board meetings.
- Collaborates with stakeholders across the group (e.g., engineering, quality assurance) to explain practices and procedures needed for compliance with standards prior to deployment.
- Reviews and communicates governance and security requirements.
- Gathers team feedback to improve dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor network health, including defining metrics, trends, and thresholds to ensure service level objectives (SLOs).
- Connects with monitoring teams to communicate feedback and enhance the detection and diagnosis of network anomalies for the team.
- Offers technical leadership on support rotations, and gathers details to develop solutions for moderately complex investigations.
- Leverages incident response protocols to provide guidance on root cause investigations.
- Helps others identify appropriate tools to support the frontline support team.
- Ensures the team is able to meet critical test and deployment milestones, according to templated project plans for large projects.
- Provides mentorship and fosters technical excellence and growth across the team.
- Coaches others during standard customer-facing incident response and offers guidance on customer-facing root cause analysis (RCA).
- Contributes to the roadmap and software architecture, and helps the team execute according to documentation.
- Engages with vendors and internal teams to review, troubleshoot, and resolve product/equipment technical issues and ensure adherence to networking standards.
- Provides guidance on strategies to remediate network efficiency issues when network performance and service metrics (e.g., latency, throughput, packet loss).
- Collaborates with vendors and business partners to develop scalable solutions.
- Collaborates with capacity planning teams to plan for and forecast team initiatives, integrating performance, security, and growth models to ensure future-ready infrastructure.
- Anticipates limitations of network technology and ensures the network is architected accordingly.
- Communicates limitations to the team.
- Ensures the team is able to meet critical test and deployment milestones, according to templated project plans for large projects.
- Provides mentorship and fosters technical excellence and growth across the team.
- Coaches others during standard customer-facing incident response and offers guidance on customer-facing root cause analysis (RCA).
- Contributes to the roadmap and software architecture, and helps the team execute according to documentation.
- Engages with vendors and internal teams to review, troubleshoot, and resolve product/equipment technical issues and ensure adherence to networking standards.
- Provides guidance on strategies to remediate network efficiency issues when network performance and service metrics (e.g., latency, throughput, packet loss).
- Collaborates with vendors and business partners to develop scalable solutions.
- Collaborates with capacity planning teams to plan for and forecast team initiatives, integrating performance, security, and growth models to ensure future-ready infrastructure.
- Anticipates limitations of network technology and ensures the network is architected accordingly.
- Communicates limitations to the team.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Creates and owns the execution plan for the team's work and multiple projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines and budgets when applicable to ensure projects are completed on time and in adherence with requirements. Delegates work across the team and helps them prioritize their work. Identifies resource needs and adapts plans based on changing priorities and business needs.
- Strengthens collaborative partnerships across teams to align on expectations and shared objectives. Guides team members to build relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure effective collaboration. Practices active listening and asks insightful questions to promote an inclusive culture.
- Leads the team to identify and address moderately complex operational and/or technical issues in accordance with standard practices, providing guidance as appropriate. Directs the team to analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot moderately complex errors.
- Actively seeks learning opportunities for self and team to enhance knowledge and skills in key areas and remain current with industry advancements. Uses feedback and training to elevate personal and team skills, modeling a commitment to learning. Identifies skill gaps within the team and supports team members in learning opportunities by providing resources and fostering an environment that encourages knowledge-sharing.
- Identifies and recommends improvements as well as encourages the team to share ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Reviews and provides feedback on team member's ideas and seeks input from others on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.
- Coaches and provides direction to team members in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Facilitates goal setting discussions with team members, ensuring individual goals are aligned with broader team goals. Identifies development opportunities to help team members improve performance. Contributes to the talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, assessing promotion eligibility, and managing talent resources.
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Entry Level Network Development Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level network development engineer job?
Focus on building hands-on experience through lab projects, home labs, or internships that demonstrate routing, switching, and scripting skills. Entry level employers look for familiarity with tools like Python, Ansible, or Terraform, along with foundational certifications such as CCNA or CompTIA Network+. Tailoring your resume to highlight specific network configurations you have built, even in a lab environment, gives you a concrete edge over candidates with only coursework.
Which companies hire entry level network development engineers?
Companies hiring entry level network development engineers right now include Amazon, Oracle, and TikTok, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring comes from a broad mix of employers, including cloud providers, managed service providers, telecommunications firms, and large enterprises building or expanding their network infrastructure teams.
Are there remote entry level network development engineer jobs?
Yes, though many roles at this level still prefer on-site or hybrid arrangements so new hires can work closely with senior engineers. About 0% of entry level network development engineer openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, so candidates with strong self-directed troubleshooting skills and home lab experience are well positioned for those flexible postings.
Are these new grad network development engineer jobs?
Yes, the listings here include new grad, recent graduate, and junior network development engineer roles. A posting is new-grad friendly when it welcomes zero to two years of experience, accepts internship or co-op work in place of full-time history, or calls out a portfolio of personal projects as qualifying experience. If you are a recent graduate or career changer with self-taught lab skills, these roles are designed for you.
Which industries hire the most entry level network development engineers?
Entry Level network development engineer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Retail, and E-Commerce & Online Marketplaces, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they are actively scaling network infrastructure, automating legacy systems, or standing up new cloud-connected environments that require engineers who can grow with the team from day one.