Staff Network Reliability Engineer

The world still has coverage blind spots. You could help eliminate them at Skylo.

Skylo has pioneered a standards-based approach to satellite connectivity. We connect smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites. No special hardware, no entirely new networks. Just billions of existing devices, suddenly reachable anywhere on Earth. We're not building toward this future. We're already in it.

Our direct-to-device service is live on millions of activated devices across five continents, covering more than 72 million square kilometers, in partnership with leading satellite operators, mobile network operators, Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs worldwide. And we're just getting started.

At the heart of it all is Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN: a 3GPP standards-based, cloud-native platform that seamlessly bridges terrestrial and satellite networks. It's the infrastructure that makes true anywhere, anytime connectivity possible.

When you join Skylo, you'll work at the intersection of three markets reshaping how the world stays connected: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT. Enabling people outdoors and critical workflows in the world's most remote places.

This is a rare chance to work on technology that matters, at a company that's already proving it works

As a Staff Network Reliability Engineer, Core Operations, in the Global Product Support & Customer Success organization, you are the 5G Core domain authority within Skylo’s production NTN network. Where the Incident Manager coordinates the bridge, you own the technical outcome. You are the escalation target for every Core-domain Sev 1–2 event — the engineer who diagnoses AMF registration failures, SMF session establishment drops, UPF forwarding anomalies, IMS SIP/Diameter failures, and IMSI provisioning breakdowns at a protocol level, and delivers a resolution or a definitive root cause.

On a network where every subscriber is roaming over satellite, Core NF health is the difference between a connected device and a dark one. You own that health — 24×7. You define the KPIs, write and own the runbooks, set the diagnostic standards the entire team operates against, and continuously surface toil and failure patterns as engineering requirements. You are not a first responder; you are the last technical stop before a Core problem becomes an engineering escalation.

At Staff NRE level you are also a force multiplier: mentoring Senior NREs in Core domain depth, contributing to the automation backlog with operational requirements, and partnering with Product Engineering to ensure new Core releases meet operational readiness standards before they reach production.

Core Network Operations & Health Ownership

5G Core Incident Diagnosis & Escalation Authority

Root Cause Analysis & Post-Incident Ownership

KPI Ownership & Performance Assurance

Runbook Authorship & Operational Standards

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Team Development

Vendor Management & Engineering Interface

REQUIRED

With employees working across three continents, Skylo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Our worldwide and inclusive culture encourages a flexible approach to work, and we also offer an attractive range of benefits such as:

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