Principal Engineer, Equinix
Cloud Storage
$159-304k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$159-304k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- You have a broad background writing software, and operating production systems at scale, in various contexts and have some specialties in modern cloud infrastructure and systems
- You have experience with networked storage (iSCSI, NVMe-TCP, RoCE, NFS, object storage, and MPIO) and able to explain at a high level to a CEO while going deep with technical teams
- Networks aren’t the network architects problem to solve, you’re in deep with them. MPLS, VXLAN, EVPN, DCB, PFC, and multicast are all network technologies you’re comfortable with
- You are equally happy writing an operator in k8s or dropping into the Linux kernel
- You have strong opinions about the direction of cloud infrastructure, but you hold them loosely and enjoy working with others to achieve the best outcomes
- You blur the lines between development and operations. The best team to debug a novel production problem is the team that wrote what’s running
- You're an expert in at least one programming language, proficient with several others, and have opinions about them all. You need to be able to build good, modular abstractions and motivate engineers who are building production software
- You make decisions with data when available, and push for making them available when they aren't
- You enjoy communicating through written English. As knowledge workers, we are effectively teachers and historians
- You're a servant leader, understanding that your team is successful because of you working to empower them and remove barriers
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Principal Engineer who will drive the innovation, design, implementation, and improvement of large-scale systems with critical uptime requirements for the next phase of our growth
- Principals and above on the Edge Infra team are very much leaders with a seat at the table, but they’re hands-on
- You will create and design, but you'll also implement those designs and model great engineering behavior for the team so we can grow
- Drive execution of at least one major product area. Depending on the size and scope this could be a family of products
- Closely collaborate with other leadership, product management, and internal customers across Equinix on requirements and schedule
- Help directors and other managers staff projects with the right engineers
- Build an R&D culture, bootstrapping new solutions or dependencies as needed
- Foster an efficient build-it-and-run-it culture, blurring the lines between operations and development, reducing friction to fixing things that are broken
- Engage the global Equinix community internally and externally. Much of the work of the team will be freely available to the world through open-source
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Dec 1999
$280m
LATE VC
Total funding: $280m
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company values
- Seek something bigger - Come drive meaningful change as part of the world’s trusted, leading digital infrastructure company. Together, our work enables innovation that enriches our work, life and planet
- Challenge assumptions - Bring your unique perspectives and contributions to help us make bold decisions, become aware of biases and remove any barriers that still exist
- Want to unlock your potential - Achieve, learn, adapt and be comfortable building a fulfilling career. We are here to help you unlock your potential
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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