Senior Network Automation & EaaS Platform Engineer

Equinix, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

US Benefits: Insurance, Retirement, PT

PTO and Paid Holidays

Job summary

Equinix, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Network Platform Engineering team.

You will design, build, and scale the Environment‑as‑a‑Service platform while advancing the Network Automation suite, partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Observability teams to accelerate certification, testing, and deployment pipelines. The role demands strong engineering judgment, bias for action, and the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Network Engineering and Automation.
• Bachelor’s in Electrical engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering or Related Field preferred.
• Excellent understanding of OSI layers, hands‑on experience with routing and switching in multi‑vendor, large‑scale environments.
• Deep proficiency in service provider and data center networking protocols: Routing: BGP, OSPF, IS‑IS; MPLS: LDP, RSVP‑TE, Segment Routing; Overlay/Underlay: VXLAN, EVPN, L3VPN, L2VPN.
• Network virtualization: CNF, VNF, SR‑IOV, DPDK.
• Strong programming proficiency in Python (required) including test frameworks (pytest); Go and Elixir preferred.
• REST API design, GraphQL, gRPC, and OpenConfig/YANG‑based network management interfaces (NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI).
• Hands‑on experience with containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, ArgoCD, and cloud‑native application patterns.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling: Terraform, Ansible etc. for environment provisioning and configuration management.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and DevOps practices including trunk‑based development and automated testing gates.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS Bedrock, including networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect).
• Deep familiarity with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, OTEL.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation frameworks to validate network operating systems and real‑world use cases.
• Lead the EaaS platform design, migrating to scalable containerized test environments.
• Define provisioning roadmaps for on‑demand, self‑service virtual topologies.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into engineering tasks and automated tests.
• Develop platform tooling in Python/Go/Elixir emphasizing maintainability and reuse.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and deployment with ArgoCD.
• Contribute to front‑ and back‑end development of internal web apps for visibility and control of EaaS.
• Contribute to code reviews and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop network architecture for scalable, multi‑vendor environments.
• Lead test plans and certification strategies for NOS features and customer use cases.

Skills

Python

Go

Elixir

REST API

GraphQL

gRPC

OpenConfig/YANG

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

ArgoCD

AWS Bedrock

Prometheus

Grafana

Tempo

OTEL

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering or Related Field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Equinix, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Network Platform Engineering team.

You will design, build, and scale the Environment‑as‑a‑Service platform while advancing the Network Automation suite, partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Observability teams to accelerate certification, testing, and deployment pipelines. The role demands strong engineering judgment, bias for action, and the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.