Senior Network Automation Engineer

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

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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.

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically accomplished Senior Staff Software Engineer to join Network Platform Engineering (NPE) team. This is a senior individual contributor role at the intersection of software engineering and network infrastructure, designed for engineers who thrive on building platforms that other engineers depend on at scale.

In this role, you will be a hands‑on contributor responsible for designing, building, and scaling our Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform, while also advancing our existing Network Automation platform with new capabilities. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Observability teams to deliver solutions that accelerate the velocity and reliability of network certification, testing, and deployment pipelines.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility position that requires strong engineering judgment, a bias for action, and the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and business units

Network Automation

• Design, and develop comprehensive automation frameworks to validate and certify vendor agnostic Network Operating Systems (NOS), including feature validation, traffic profiling, regression testing, and real-world customer use case simulation
• Lead the design and implementation of the Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform, driving the strategic migration from physical lab infrastructure to scalable, containerized, and software-defined test environments leveraging Containerized Network Functions (CNF)
• Define and implement a roadmap for test environment provisioning, enabling on-demand, self-service access to virtualized network topologies for development and QA teams
• Gather, refine, and translate complex testing requirements from multiple stakeholders into well-scoped engineering tasks and automated test case implementations
• Build and maintain platform tooling and automation frameworks using Python, Go, and Elixir, with a focus on code quality, maintainability, and reusability across teams
• Managing and implementing Kubernetes(K8) clusters, debugging at scale and deployment using ArgoCD
• Design and development of cloud-native applications
• Define and enforce monitoring standards, create operational dashboards, implement intelligent alerting strategies, and establish SLI/SLO frameworks aligned to platform reliability goals
• Contribute to front-end and back-end development of internal Web applications that provide visibility and control over the EaaS and automation platform, collaborating with UX and product partners as needed
• Contribute in code reviews and implement CI/CD pipelines

Network Engineering

• Contribute to the architecture and design of next-generation network infrastructure solutions spanning Layers 1–3, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with long-term platform strategy
• Develop comprehensive test plans and certification strategies; lead hands-on technical deep-dives to verify that architectural designs, new NOS features, and customer use cases perform as expected in lab and production-equivalent environments
• Act as a subject matter expert for service provider networking protocols including BGP (iBGP/eBGP, policy, route reflectors), MPLS (LDP, RSVP, segment routing), VXLAN, EVPN, ISIS, and OSPF in multi-vendor environments
• Support vendor evaluations and feature gap analyses, provide technical guidance on network hardware and NOS selection aligned to architectural requirements

AI-Assisted Engineering

• Design & Develop MCP Server and implement AI Chatbot interface for EAAS
• Understand current Agentic…