Senior Staff Engineer, Software Defined Dataplane
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