Senior Staff Engineer, Software Defined Dataplane

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 280+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Much of the internet that you know flows through our rapid interconnected network and data centers. Equinix Internet Exchange is the world's largest Internet Exchange while Equinix Fabric has the largest market share in Software Defined Interconnection.

Our software defined dataplane engineering team is designing new network service offerings through network‑adjacent virtualized compute on our global network which will support Equinix's Digital Interconnection services. We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer who will be responsible for building easy to operate, reliable and high‑performing applications and networking software for our next generation networking platform. As a senior staff engineer, you’ll work with the team to build highly scalable and reliable systems.

You will participate in software design and operationalization—providing leadership in all aspects of running services across critical and pivotal initiatives. You will focus on building networking services through network‑adjacent virtualized compute platform to deliver network primitives by providing a platform for future cloud‑native network software. You will be a key contributor in building and maintaining the components that drive our customers’ experience.

This role presents a great opportunity for a passionate senior engineer to make a tangible impact to the future‑state technology stack of Equinix’ global networks and infrastructure. If you believe in the power of technology to change the world, and if you value creativity, work comfortably in a fast‑paced environment and are eager to learn new technologies, we would like to talk to you.

• Software development towards designing an ecosystem of software services to extend Equinix’s networking services through a network‑adjacent virtualized compute platform
• Design and manage networking software services in highly concurrent, scalable, distributed transactional systems
• Align technical design of software systems with business outcomes to ensure our software services meet customer SLAs
• Contribute and lead the team to set up CICD pipelines with solid unit tests and integration tests to help deliver code from commit to deployment in minutes with confidence
• Develop an observability strategy for our software services
• Work with the team for constant improvement of system performance and scale using system profiling tools and stress testing techniques
• Help identify technical debt and drive continual improvement of our software quality
• Contribute to next‑generation networking proof‑of‑concept projects in close collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver tangible outcomes that guide new technology investments and implementation decisions to evolve the network technology stack
• Partner with support and operations teams to ensure proper operationalization and support of our software in Production
• Drive a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration with other business functions
• Participate in designing and improving 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)

• 7‑10 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…