8 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate architectural blueprints into hands-on automation strategies and scalable infrastructure for global network visibility.
- Own the engineering roadmap and drive delivery against Network Platform Engineering milestones.
- Lead complex system designs and implementations for real-time streaming telemetry and high-performance databases.
- Maintain the technical integrity of streaming pipelines that ingest, normalize, and process global network telemetry with sub-second latency.
- Translate product requirements into technical specifications and manage internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Define service-level metrics and ensure the observability platform maintains global ITIL compliance.
- Serve as the senior technical point of contact for root-cause analysis and resolution of cross-platform outages.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including Model-Driven Telemetry, and develop new concepts and change-management practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering or distributed systems.
- At least 3 years of experience in large-scale network engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Mastery of SOLID and Clean Architecture applied to Big Data.
- Proficiency in Java, Go, and SQL, with expert-level Python or Go skills.
- Expert understanding of Model-Driven Telemetry and experience optimizing gNMI over SNMP in high-scale environments.
- Experience with service-provider networking technologies and protocols including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, QoS, EVPN, and VXLAN.
- Hands-on expertise with Apache Flink, Kafka, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Thanos, and Kubernetes.
- Experience building custom collectors or API integrations for network operating systems such as Junos, Nokia, and Arista.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program available to all employees.
- Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for eligible employees and family members.
- Retirement plan contributions by employees and Equinix.
- Accrued paid time off and paid holidays, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Position is based at the United States Redwood City Office GHQ.
- Benefits may be subject to specific plan or program terms and may change.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Equinix
Equinix is a public digital infrastructure company that operates a global platform of colocation and interconnection data centers for enterprises, cloud and network providers. It sells space, power, and connectivity, plus services such as Equinix Fabric, Network Edge, and Equinix Metal for hybrid multicloud and edge deployments. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it is listed on NASDAQ (EQIX) and runs hundreds of IBX facilities across major metros worldwide.