Senior Staff Engineer, Network Modeling, Product Software

Company Overview

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.

Equinix’s network continues to evolve and grow. As part of the Network Platform Engineering team, we are building a unified network model that accurately represents our network via real‑time telemetry for observability and intent‑based configurations. The model feeds Equinix Brain, a company‑wide initiative to improve asset data usage in order to enhance margins and customer experience.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to build and operate a highly scalable, available, and information‑rich unified network model.

• 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 enrich the unified network model to solve critical business problems, increasing network reliability, visibility, awareness, and planning.
• Develop solutions that leverage data from the unified network model to provide insights that enhance product capabilities for customers, aid operations teams in troubleshooting escalations and planning maintenance, and inform capacity‑planning teams.
• Facilitate cross‑stakeholder discussions to ensure alignment on software requirements and design trade‑offs, considering performance, scalability, and reliability factors.
• Follow a proactive and collaborative approach to working with cross‑functional teams, ensuring seamless integration of the unified network model into Equinix Brain with other domains and Network‑as‑a‑Service 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.

• 7+ years of experience developing distributed, scalable, highly available software services using Golang.
• Background with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or cloud‑based companies; experience designing microservices and systems at scale with a focus on production readiness.
• Experience building software as a service and running services with 24/7 on‑call rotations.
• Proficient in data management systems and technologies: GCP Spanner, Mongo
  
  DB, Redis, Neo4J.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies:
  Docker, Kubernetes, or other open‑source alternatives.
• Experience with network management protocols: gRPC, Netconf.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols (ISIS, BGP, BMP, LLDP) and their applications.
• Strong experience building and operating highly reliable distributed systems.
• Proficient in using CI/CD technologies:
  Github Actions, ArgoCD.
• Experience with public cloud services and technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• 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 a related technical field.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Excellent coding skills in Golang.
• Prior experience building a network model or digital twin.
• Prior experience using AI to make real‑time decisions on the network.

United States – Dallas Infomart Office (DAI): $136,000 – $204,000 USD / Annual.

Canada – Toronto Office (TRO): $131,000 – $181,000 CAD / Annual.

Equinix offers competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected, and efficient benefits. The benefits package includes health, life, disability, and voluntary plans; retirement savings plans; paid time off; paid holidays; and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits,…