SDN Engineer, Product Software

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Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Do you want to write the next chapter in AI Inference Networking? Are you passionate & familiar with the developer communities and contributing to open-source software? Then we are looking for you!

Equinix is embarking on a transformation of our service portfolio. We envision a new way to globally connect the world. If you are ready for a new challenge, then come join our team and let’s revolutionize AI Inference Networking. We are seeking the right person, with the right mindset and skillset to tap into the open-source community to fuel this journey.

We believe that a healthy, open ecosystem is critical to the future of AI Inference Networking technology. The Equinix Interconnections Business Unit is looking for highly motivated engineers to take Equinix’s engagement in AI Inference Networking to the next level.

Equinix is the world’s biggest digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success.

With our global footprint of 220+ data centers, situated close to clouds and networks for optimal Hybrid Multi-Cloud architectures, we currently serve 10,000 customers, including the largest cloud providers, Fortune 500 enterprises and Global 2000 companies.

Our culture is at the heart of our success, and it is our authentic, humble, gritty people who build “The Magic of Equinix”. We share a real passion for winning and put the customer at the center of everything we do. We are big on innovation and constantly look for ways to bring technology to better serve the evolving needs of our customers and benefit society in an increasingly digital world.

• Work in a globally distributed development team on AI Inference open-source software
• Cultivate Equinix’s open-source presence and reputation in open-source organizations, standards bodies and more like Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Linux Foundation, etc. Interact with stakeholder(s) to understand and document the product features
• Provides a level of effort (LOE) for the product backlog. Work with technical project managers and product management teams to define a schedule
• Assist in the analysis & evaluation of new technologies to meet the demand for product roadmap and technology platform goals
• Help in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and platform
• Advocate and follow best design and development practices adhering to Engineering standards
• Prioritizing and parallelizing the tasks in hand and dealing with ad-hoc requests

• 5+ years of experience or related experience in designing and building highly redundant SDN network infrastructure with an emphasis on L4/L7 proxying, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, SNI routing, mTLS, reverse proxy tools such as HAProxy, Envoy, NGINX, and API gateway Proxy

• 5+ years of experience or related experience applying network and security principles within a cloud infrastructure deployment. Demonstrated experience in secure transport methods (SSH, TLS, IPSEC, Wireguard), IAM, VPCs and connectivity such as IaaS peering and VPN solutions
• A deep understanding of OSI Layer and its application
• Strong track…