Senior Staff Engineer, Cloud-Native Networking & Dataplane

Equinix; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable networking software for our next‑gen platform. You’ll lead the architecture, mentor engineers, and contribute to high‑impact, production‑level services across multi‑cloud environments.

You’ll work on network primitives via network‑adjacent compute, ensuring reliability, performance, and observability, while collaborating with cross‑functional teams to guide

Qualifications

• 7-10 years in software development, building reliable distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-native networking and multi-tenant platforms.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication from engineering to exec.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software services to extend Equinix’s networking capabilities.
• Lead scalable, distributed systems with strong CI/CD and observability.
• Align software design with business outcomes and customer SLAs.
• Mentor team members to ensure timely delivery of high‑quality software.
• Drive incident management processes and production support improvements.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Leadership

Networking knowledge

Cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Education

Bachelor’s/Master's in CS or related engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC

Netconf

Job description

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable networking software for our next‑gen platform. You’ll lead the architecture, mentor engineers, and contribute to high‑impact, production‑level services across multi‑cloud environments.

You’ll work on network primitives via network‑adjacent compute, ensuring reliability, performance, and observability, while collaborating with cross‑functional teams to guide