Staff Software Engineer: Cloud-Native Networking (Kubernetes)

Equinix; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid PTO and holidays

Job summary

Equinix seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build easy to operate, reliable, high-performing networking applications for our next-generation platform. You will contribute to network-adjacent compute platforms delivering cloud-native networking capabilities and drive components that power customer experiences.

You will design and implement scalable distributed systems, participate in design reviews and CI/CD tests, and help drive software quality in a fast-paced, collaborative environment across

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software development, preferably building & operating highly reliable distributed systems
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or relevant engineering field or equivalent industry experience
• Experience in building software defined multi-tenant networking platforms at scale using cloud-native networking technologies and ecosystems
• Understanding of L2/L3 networking protocols and concepts (BGP, EVP-LAN, IPSEC, etc)
• Experience in working with network management protocols: gRPC, Netconf
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, or other open-source alternatives
• Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) services and technologies
• Expertise in automating deployments of applications into Kubernetes on x86 deployments
• Experience with open source and networking technologies, ecosystems, communities and industry forums such the Linux Foundation
• Good understanding of application development stack
• Recent and proficient experience with Golang programming language
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey findings, recommendations, and technical details

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in the software development towards designing an ecosystem of software services to extend Equinix's networking services through a network-adjacent virtualized compute platform
• Collaborate with team members to design and implement scalable and efficient distributed systems
• Engage in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain high-quality code
• Contribute solid unit tests and integration tests to CICD pipelines to deliver code from commit to deployment in minutes with confidence
• Help identify technical debt and drive continual improvement of our software quality
• Partner with support and operations teams to ensure proper operationalization, observability, and support of our software in Production
• Drive a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration with other business functions
• Participate in incident management processes and collaborating with the team in troubleshooting strategies and fixing production issues in a timely manner
• Participate in an on-call rotation (when we get software into Production)
• Follow a proactive and collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams

Skills

Distributed systems

Golang

Kubernetes

Docker

gRPC

Public cloud

Automation

Communication skills

Open source networking

Networking protocols

Education

Bachelors or Masters in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Linux

Netconf

gRPC

Job description

Equinix seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build easy to operate, reliable, high-performing networking applications for our next-generation platform. You will contribute to network-adjacent compute platforms delivering cloud-native networking capabilities and drive components that power customer experiences.

You will design and implement scalable distributed systems, participate in design reviews and CI/CD tests, and help drive software quality in a fast-paced, collaborative environment across