Principal Software Engineer, Equinix
Software Networking at Equinix Metal
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services using Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python, or other similar languages
- A background of working for SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or cloud-based companies with prior experience of designing microservices and systems at scale with a focus on production readiness
- Experience in designing and implementing API interfaces using REST or gRPC
- Experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git, and CI/CD
- Good understanding of distributed systems architecture, operational readiness, and cloud infrastructure provider use cases
- Deep analytical and problem solving skills with a sense of curiosity
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills internally and externally including the ability to document solutions and create architectural diagrams
- Shown ability to think strategically and execute with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basis
- Experience with L2-L3 networking technologies, including EVPN/VXLAN, at datacenter scale or cloud scale is a plus
- Experience with building network software at scale with focus on resilience, automation of well tested production ready software. Prior experience with any one of these - VPC, Load Balancers, Firewalls, DNS, Security Policies, IP Address Management is a plus
- Familiarity with operating traditional SQL databases such as PostgreSQL is a plus
- Experience contributing to Open Source and interacting with Open Source communities is a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and other container services will be a plus
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field of study
What the job involves
- Equinix Metal, a leading bare metal cloud provider, is looking for a Principal Engineer for our Software Networking Team
- In this role, you will be responsible for being a technical leader, mentor to more junior engineers, and an active contributor to our internal systems/codebases for network control plane and software network orchestration stack
- Architect, design, and development network orchestration microservices and features for a bare metal cloud that scales and provides a way to interconnect across the Equinix ecosystem
- Deeply care about technology, your craft, and about the success of your teammates and the company - strong intrinsic motivators to help drive self-improvement is a must
- Provide technical leadership for the team of highly passionate engineers to evolve our software networking features
- Work closely with our team and collaborate with cross functional teams to introduce and enhance product capabilities for customers and operation teams
- Collaborate with the architects driving the technical strategy and direction for our large-scale cloud services, driving simplicity, high reliability, ease of maintenance, and operation
- Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational standard methodologies
- Actively participate in continuous improvement of process and systems that support our software development lifecycle (SDLC), values, and culture
- Participate in an on call rotation (roughly two weeks per quarter)
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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