Senior Staff Software Engineer, Networks (SDN)

　　Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and service providers. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

　　At Equinix, we help the world's digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people's lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.

　　We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

　　Job Summary

　　Analyzes business requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Designs software systems.

　　Responsibilities

　　Design and development of software networking features for Equinix Metal, a bare metal cloud at scale that provides a way to interconnect across the Equinix ecosystemWork closely with our team and collaborate with cross functional teams to introduce and enhance our product capabilities for customersProvide technical leadership and coaching for less experienced team members to evolve our software networking featuresCollaborate with others to develop software for our large-scale cloud services, driving simplicity, high-reliability, ease of maintenance and operationLead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational standard methodologiesActively participate in continuous improvement of process and systems that support our software development lifecycle (SDLC), values and cultureCommunicate clearly and thoroughly in a remote first environment, document technical decisionsOn-call responsibilities for the services the team is responsible for

　　Qualifications

　　Proven years of expertise in developing software in L2-L3 networking technologies at datacenter scale or cloud scaleAn 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, Software Defined Networking, Load Balancers, DNS, Security Policies, IP Address Management is a plusExperience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services with clean APIs using gRPC or HTTP protocolsExperience in a modern coding language like Ruby/Ruby on Rails or GoExperience in creating fast feedback loops with CI/CD and testing automationExperience with Kubernetes, Docker and other container services or awareness of how containers workDeep analytical and problem solving skills with a sense of curiosityShown ability to think strategically and execute with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basisExperience contributing to Open Source and interacting with Open Source communities or ability to work on an environment such that code will be openly shared with others and open to scrutinyExperience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD

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