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Staff Engineer, Product Software

Redwood City, USFull-time$146k–$218k2026-11-04 → 2026-11-09
On-site

Core

Lead technical authority for Equinix's global telemetry fabric, bridging high-scale distributed software and network hardware to ensure sub-second latency telemetry ingestion and processing.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Product Software (Network Observability)

Builds

Global streaming pipelines, high-performance databases, and network observability platform

Domain

Network Infrastructure / Distributed Systems / Telemetry

Required skills

Java, Go, SQL, Apache Flink, Kafka, Clickhouse, Prometheus, Thanos, Kubernetes, Python, Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT), gNMI, SNMP, BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, QoS, EVPN, VXLAN

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Apache Flink, Kafka, Clickhouse, Prometheus, Thanos, Kubernetes, Junos, Nokia, Arista

Responsibilities

Translate architectural blueprints into automation strategies and scalable infrastructure; Drive engineering team toward key milestones and roadmap execution; Lead system design for real-time streaming telemetry and high-performance databases; Define critical SLA metrics and ensure global ITIL compliance; Serve as senior point of contact for complex root-cause analysis and cross-platform outage resolution; Evaluate emerging technologies like Model-Driven Telemetry; Prove out new concepts and define change-management practices

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership