Senior Staff Engineer, Unified Network Modeling

Equinix; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Equinix is the worlds digital infrastructure company, expanding its unified network model to support autonomous operations and observability across data centers. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will help design and operate scalable services modeling network entities for Equinix Brain and NaaS initiatives.

You will guide data-driven decisions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability and performance across the global network.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing distributed, scalable, highly available software services using Golang
• Background of working for SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or cloud-based companies with prior experience of designing microservices and systems at scale with a focus on production readiness
• Experience with building software as a service, running services with 24x7 on-call rotations
• Proficient in data management systems and technologies: GCP Spanner, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4J
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, or other open-source alternatives
• Experience in working with network management protocols: gRPC, Netconf
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, protocols (e.g. ISIS, BGP, BMP, LLDP), and their applications
• Strong experience in building & operating highly reliable distributed systems
• Proficient in using continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies: Github Actions, ArgoCD
• Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) services and technologies
• Hands-on experience with observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) such as Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos
• Experience with agile software development practices including JIRA, peer reviews, Git, CI/CD
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to troubleshoot and resolve distributed system issues
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey findings, recommendations, and technical details to various stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in the design, development, test, and operation of highly reliable services and software to model network entities and relationships that compose Equinix's global network
• Provide technical guidance and collaborate with stakeholders to identify network data and use cases that can enrich the unified network model to solve critical business problems that increase network reliability, visibility, awareness, and the ability to plan
• Develop solutions that leverage data from the unified network model to provide insights that enhance product capabilities for customers, aid operations teams to troubleshoot customer escalations and planning maintenances, and inform capacity planning teams
• Facilitate cross-stakeholder discussions to ensure alignment on software requirements and design trade-offs, while considering performance, scalability, and reliability factors
• Follow a proactive and collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration of unified network model into Equinix Brain with other domains and Network-As-A-Service (NaaS) initiatives
• Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational best practices and standard methodologies
• Participate in an on-call rotation

Skills

Golang

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

On-call rotation

Networking concepts

Observability

CI/CD

Public cloud

Data management

Distributed systems

Golang

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

gRPC

Netconf

Grafana

Prometheus

Thanos

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Equinix is the worlds digital infrastructure company, expanding its unified network model to support autonomous operations and observability across data centers. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will help design and operate scalable services modeling network entities for Equinix Brain and NaaS initiatives.

You will guide data-driven decisions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability and performance across the global network.