Senior Staff Engineer, Software Defined Dataplane
Core
Building easy-to-operate, reliable, high-performing applications and networking software for Equinix's next-generation 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.
Domain
Digital Infrastructure / Networking / Cloud-Native
Required skills
Golang, distributed systems, L2/L3 networking protocols (BGP, EVP-LAN, IPSEC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), gRPC, Netconf, system profiling, stress testing, technical leadership.
Preferred skills
Linux Foundation community involvement, mentoring teams, incident management, on-call rotation.
Technologies
Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, gRPC, Netconf, BGP, IPSEC
Responsibilities
Design and manage networking software services in highly concurrent, scalable, distributed transactional systems; Align technical design with business outcomes to meet customer SLAs; Lead CI/CD pipelines with unit and integration tests; Develop observability strategies; Improve system performance and scale using profiling and stress testing; Identify technical debt and drive software quality improvements; Collaborate on next-generation networking proof-of-concept projects; Partner with operations teams for production support; Participate in incident management and troubleshooting; Participate in on-call rotation.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities.
