Who you are

- 5+ years experience in software development, preferably building & operating highly reliable distributed systems

- Bachelor’s/Master's degree in computer science or relevant engineering field or equivalent industry experience

- Experience in building software defined multi-tenant networking platforms at scale using cloud-native networking technologies and ecosystems

- Understanding of L2/L3 networking protocols and concepts (BGP, EVP-LAN, IPSEC, etc)

- Experience in working with network management protocols: gRPC, Netconf

- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, or other open-source alternatives

- Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) services and technologies

- Expertise in automating deployments of applications into Kubernetes on x86 deployments

- Experience with open source and networking technologies, ecosystems, communities and industry forums such the Linux Foundation

- Good understanding of application development stack

- Recent and proficient experience with Golang programming language

- Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey findings, recommendations, and technical details

What the job involves

- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who will be responsible for building easy to operate, reliable and high-performing applications and networking software for our next generation networking platform

- As a staff engineer, you’ll work with the team to build highly scalable and reliable systems





- You will focus on building networking services through network-adjacent virtualized compute platforms to deliver network primitives by providing a platform for future cloud-native network software

- You will be a key contributor in building and maintaining the components that drive our customers’ experience

- This role presents a great opportunity for a passionate staff engineer to make a tangible impact to the future-state technology stack of Equinix’ global networks and infrastructure

- If you believe in the power of technology to change the world, and if you value creativity, work comfortably in a rapid-paced environment and are eager to learn new technologies, we would like to talk to you

- Actively participate in the software development towards designing an ecosystem of software services to extend Equinix’s networking services through a network-adjacent virtualized compute platform

- Collaborate with team members to design and implement scalable and efficient distributed systems

- Engage in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain high-quality code

- Contribute solid unit tests and integration tests to CICD pipelines to deliver code from commit to deployment in minutes with confidence

- Help identify technical debt and drive continual improvement of our software quality

- Partner with support and operations teams to ensure proper operationalization, observability, and support of our software in Production

- Drive a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration with other business functions

- Participate in incident management processes and collaborating with the team in troubleshooting strategies and fixing production issues in a timely manner

- Participate in an on-call rotation (when we get software into Production)

- Follow a proactive and collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams

📌 Staff Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Equinix
📍 Toronto