Sr. Staff Engineer, Software Networking - Equinix Metal Sr. Staff Engineer, Software Networking - Equinix Metal Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and service providers. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.
At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.
We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
This role can be remote or based in one of our office locations.
Responsibilities
Design, and development of Software Networking features for Equinix Metal, a bare metal cloud that scales and provides a way to interconnect across the Equinix ecosystem.
Work closely with our team and collaborate with cross functional teams to introduce and enhance our product capabilities for customers
Provide technical leadership for the team of highly passionate engineers to evolve our software networking features
Collaborate with other architects driving the technical strategy and direction for our large-scale cloud services, driving simplicity, high-reliability, ease of maintenance and operation
Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational standard methodologies
Actively participate in continuous improvement of process and systems that support our software development lifecycle (SDLC), values and culture
Qualifications
A demonstrated track record with 7+ years of expertise in L2-L3 networking technologies at datacenter scale or cloud scale.
7+ years of experience developing distributed, scalable and highly available services using Go or another similar language
An experience with building network software at scale with focus on resilience, automation of well tested production ready software. Prior experience with any one of these VPC, Load Balancers, DNS, Security Policies, IP Address Management is a plus.
Experience in designing and implementing API interfaces using REST and gRPC
Experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
Deep analytical and problem solving skills with a sense of curiosity
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills internally and externally including the ability to document solutions and create architectural diagrams
Shown ability to think strategically and execute with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basis
Familiarity with operating at least one traditional SQL database; PostgreSQL is a plus
Experience contributing to Open Source and interacting with Open Source communities is a plus
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and other container services will be a plus
We offer Medical, TeleMedicine, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance, 401K, Leave of absence & disability benefits, paid time off & holidays and more.
In accordance with Colorado State Law ( https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-085 ) the salary range for Colorado for this role is $130K-$180K per year, with 25% bonus target.
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