1 month ago
Base Salary
$136k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop software services extending Equinix networking services through a network-adjacent virtualized compute platform.
- Design and manage highly concurrent, scalable, distributed transactional networking systems.
- Align technical software designs with business outcomes and customer service-level agreements.
- Lead or contribute to CI/CD pipelines, unit testing, and integration testing for rapid, confident deployments.
- Develop observability strategies and improve system performance and scale through profiling and stress testing.
- Identify technical debt and drive continuous improvements in software quality.
- Contribute to next-generation networking proof-of-concept projects with cross-functional teams.
- Partner with support and operations teams to operationalize and support production software.
- Lead and mentor developers while collaborating with business and engineering functions.
- Improve incident-management and troubleshooting processes, resolve production issues, and participate in an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of software development experience, preferably building and operating highly reliable distributed systems.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a relevant engineering field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience building software-defined, multi-tenant networking platforms at scale using cloud-native networking technologies.
- Deep understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking protocols and concepts, including BGP, EVPN, and IPSEC.
- Experience with network management protocols including gRPC and Netconf.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes or open-source alternatives.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure services and technologies.
- Expertise automating application deployments into Kubernetes on x86 deployments.
- Experience with open-source and networking technologies, ecosystems, communities, and industry forums such as the Linux Foundation.
- Good understanding of the application development stack.
- Substantive experience with the Golang programming language.
- Track record of leading and mentoring developers to deliver high-quality software on time.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across engineering and executive audiences.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program.
- US employees may enroll in health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans.
- US employees receive retirement-plan contribution opportunities, accrued paid time off, and paid holidays.
- Canada employees may enroll in healthcare, life, disability, and optional benefit plans.
- Canada employees may enroll in DCPP, RRSP, and TFSA retirement or savings plans.
- Canada employees receive vacation, personal time, and paid holidays.
- Benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and applicable plan terms and may change.
- The role is listed for Equinix offices in Dallas, Redwood City, Tampa, New York City, and Toronto.
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.