Staff Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years experience in software development, preferably building & operating highly reliable distributed systems
• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in computer science or relevant engineering field or equivalent industry experience
• Experience in building software defined multi-tenant networking platforms at scale using cloud-native networking technologies and ecosystems
• Understanding of L2/L3 networking protocols and concepts (BGP, EVP-LAN, IPSEC, etc)
• Experience in working with network management protocols: gRPC, Netconf
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, or other open-source alternatives
• Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) services and technologies
• Expertise in automating deployments of applications into Kubernetes on x86 deployments
• Experience with open source and networking technologies, ecosystems, communities and industry forums such the Linux Foundation
• Good understanding of application development stack
• Recent and proficient experience with Golang programming language
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey findings, recommendations, and technical details

What the job involves

• We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who will be responsible for building easy to operate, reliable and high-performing applications and networking software for our next generation networking platform
• As a staff engineer, you’ll work with the team to build highly scalable and reliable systems
• You will focus on building networking services through network-adjacent virtualized compute platforms to deliver network primitives by providing a platform for future cloud-native network software
• You will be a key contributor in building and maintaining the components that drive our customers’ experience
• This role presents a great opportunity for a passionate staff engineer to make a tangible impact to the future-state technology stack of Equinix’ global networks and infrastructure
• If you believe in the power of technology to change the world, and if you value creativity, work comfortably in a fast-paced environment and are eager to learn new technologies, we would like to talk to you
• Actively participate in the software development towards designing an ecosystem of software services to extend Equinix’s networking services through a network-adjacent virtualized compute platform
• Collaborate with team members to design and implement scalable and efficient distributed systems
• Engage in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain high-quality code
• Contribute solid unit tests and integration tests to CICD pipelines to deliver code from commit to deployment in minutes with confidence
• Help identify technical debt and drive continual improvement of our software quality
• Partner with support and operations teams to ensure proper operationalization, observability, and support of our software in Production
• Drive a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration with other business functions
• Participate in incident management processes and collaborating with the team in troubleshooting strategies and fixing production issues in a timely manner
• Participate in an on-call rotation (when we get software into Production)
• Follow a proactive and collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams