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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

📡 Telecommunications

🏪 Marketplace

☁️ SaaS

Telecommunications • Marketplace • SaaS

Share is a carrier-neutral, open-access network and bandwidth marketplace that aggregates telco infrastructure into a single intelligence layer. It connects fiber routes, ISPs, CDNs, data centers, subsea cables and infrastructure providers to enable enterprises, ISPs, hyperscalers, and AI companies to buy, sell, and trade bandwidth with standardized pricing, SLA-backed services, automated payments via a Share wallet, and public APIs for quick onboarding. Share monetizes underutilized capacity for suppliers and provides buyers with unlimited, redundant backhaul with no commits, focusing currently on deployment across African cities with plans in Europe and the US.

📋 Description

• Design the protocols, standards, and reference architectures that the rest of the ecosystem inherits from us. • Make the architectural calls that don't have a textbook answer yet: how a shared physical backbone is sliced across many partner ISPs at multi-tenant scale, how policy is expressed once and enforced everywhere, where the control plane goes next, what we retire, and what we keep. • Treat the network as a system that learns. Drive the use of AI in operations. • Own the strategy for our BGP edge. • Own the policy posture: filter chains, route policy, communities, RPKI, and traffic-engineering logic across our border fabric and downstream. • Direct MPLS in the backbone and decide where the control plane goes next. • Negotiate and establish new peering arrangements and tune the mix for cost, performance, and resilience. • Own the disaggregated, white-box switching strategy. • Direct L2/L3 aggregation and BNG strategy. • Own passive optical access and the fiber plant itself. • Partner with the Systems team on the AAA stack. • Own the network-layer services the AAA plane depends on. • Hire, develop, and lead the network engineering team. • Build a team that writes things down. • Run a team that's allergic to ticket-shuffling and bureaucracy. • Lead the technical relationship with our partner ISPs. • Own the technical credibility of Share with partners. • Own PoP and backbone reliability end-to-end. • Sit at the leadership table as the voice of the network.

🎯 Requirements

• Senior leadership experience inside an ISP, carrier, or comparable network operator: running a team, owning architecture, and answering for uptime. Not enterprise networking, and not a pure-corporate role detached from operations. • A real track record of building or leading network engineering teams: hiring, leveling, setting technical direction, and being the person the team escalates to. • Deep BGP: route policy, communities, RPKI, route reflection, upstream/peer selection, traffic engineering, and the instincts to debug a leaky origin at 2am, not just direct the people who do. • MPLS in production at scale (L3VPN and EVPN), including control-plane details (LDP, SR, BGP address families) and opinions on where the architecture goes next. • Real operational experience with passive optical access (GPON or XGS-PON), OLT/ONU provisioning, and service modelling. If you haven't run PON, you've run an access network at comparable scale and understand the protocol stack. • Comfortable in disaggregated, white-box environments (SONiC, IP Infusion OcNOS, or similar). You don't need a vendor badge to operate a switch. • Hands-on with MikroTik (RouterOS) and Huawei (access or core). These are on our partners' side of the fence and you'll touch them constantly; you can sit on a partner's CLI and read it as fluently as your own. • Fluent in L2/L3 fundamentals: VLANs, STP family, LACP, OSPF/IS-IS, VRFs, NAT, VPNs, QoS. • Comfortable driving troubleshooting end-to-end (tcpdump, Wireshark, iperf, MTR, packet captures on both ends of a session) and able to lead a team to do the same. • Partner- and customer-facing maturity. You can sit on a call with a partner's engineering team and their leadership, read their network, explain what needs to change, and do it without condescension. This role is technical, but not back-office. • A bias for execution. You'd rather ship and iterate than circulate a strategy memo. Hierarchy and corporate theatre exhaust you. • Based in Kenya, or ready to relocate. You'll be close to our facilities in Mombasa and Nairobi and on calls with partners in the same time zone.

🏖️ Benefits

• Executive-level compensation: competitive salary and meaningful equity in a mission-driven, investor-backed company (US-incorporated; Kenya operating entity). • Private health and wellness benefits.