Senior Staff Engineer, Equinix
Product Software
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated expertise in writing and applying GoLang scripts for DevOps automation tasks, including containerization, deployment orchestration, and infrastructure management
- Experience with building software as a service, running services with 24x7 oncall
- Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) services and technologies
- Proficient in data management systems and technologies: GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Neo4J, MinIO
- Experience in working with network management protocols: gRPC, Netconf
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and their applications
- Strong experience in building & operating highly reliable distributed systems
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, or other open-source alternatives
- Proficient in using continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies: Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD
- Hands-on experience with observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) such as Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos
- Experience with service mesh implementations: Jaeger, Istio, or other open-source alternatives
- 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
- Knowledge of open-source networking technologies like VPP, eBPF, SONiC is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help us build and operate a highly scalable, available, and distributed multi cloud networking software stack
- Actively participate in the design, development and operation of multi cloud networking stack
- Provide technical guidance and collaborate with stakeholders to develop software as a service
- Facilitate cross-stakeholder discussions to ensure alignment on software requirements and design trade-offs, while considering performance, scalability, and reliability factors
- Act as a key technical liaison internally and externally, engaging with customers, partners, forums and open-source developer communities to gather insights, share expertise, and stay informed about industry trends and advancements
- Follow a proactive and collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration of Multi Cloud Networking and Network-As-A-Service (NaaS) solutions
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
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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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