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Senior Staff Engineer, Software Defined Dataplane

Dallas, US💼 Full-time💰 $136,000–$136,000🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building easy-to-operate, reliable, high-performing networking software and services for Equinix's next-generation global networking platform using network-adjacent virtualized compute.

Role type

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Networking/SDN)

Builds

Software-defined dataplane services, cloud-native network software, and scalable distributed transactional systems for Equinix's Digital Interconnection services.

Domain

Digital Infrastructure, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Cloud-Native Networking

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Golang, distributed systems design, L2/L3 networking protocols (BGP, EVP-LAN, IPSEC), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), public cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), gRPC, Netconf, system profiling, stress testing, technical leadership, mentoring

Preferred skills

Linux Foundation community involvement, open source networking technologies, incident management process design

Technologies

Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Netconf, BGP, EVP-LAN, IPSEC, AWS, GCP, Azure

Responsibilities

Design and manage highly concurrent, scalable networking software services; align technical design with business outcomes and customer SLAs; lead CI/CD pipeline setup with unit and integration tests; develop observability strategies; improve system performance and scale; identify technical debt; lead next-generation networking proof-of-concept projects; partner with operations for production support; participate in incident management and on-call rotation.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with leadership and mentorship responsibilities

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