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Job Summary Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company,operating280+ data centersacross the globe andproviding interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Much of the internet that you know flows through our rapid interconnected network and data centers. Equinix Internet Exchange is the world’s largest InternetExchangewhile Equinix Fabric has the largest market share in Software Defined Interconnection. Oursoftware defineddataplaneengineering team is designing recent network service offerings through network-adjacent virtualizedcomputeon our global network which will support Equinix’s Digital Interconnection services.

We’relooking for a Senior StaffSoftware Engineer who willbe responsible forbuilding easy tooperate, reliable and high-performing applications and networking software for our next generation networking platform.As a senior staff engineer,you’llwork with the team tobuildhighly scalable and reliable systems.You willparticipateinsoftwaredesignandoperationalization-providingleadershipin all aspects of running services across critical and pivotal initiatives.You will focus on building networking services through network-adjacent virtualizedcomputeplatforms to deliver network primitives by providing a platform for future cloud-native network software. You will be akey contributorinbuilding andmaintainingthe components that drive our customers’ experience.

This role presentsa great opportunityfor a passionate seniorengineer to make a tangible impacttothe 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 fast-paced environment and are eager to learnnew technologies, we would like to talk to you.

Responsibilities

Software development towardsdesigning an ecosystemof software servicesto extendEquinix’s networking services through a network-adjacent virtualized compute platform

Design and manage networking software services in highly concurrent, scalable, distributed transactional systems

Aligning technical design of software systems with business outcomes to ensure our software servicesmeet customer SLAs

Contribute and lead the team to set up CICD pipelineswith solid unit tests and integration teststo help deliver code from commit to deployment in minuteswith confidence

Develop an observability strategy forour softwareservices

Work with the team for constant improvement of system performance and scale using system profiling tools and stress testing techniques

Helpidentifytechnical debt and drive continual improvementof our software quality





Contribute to next-generation networking proof-of-concept projects in close collaboration with cross functional teams to deliver tangible outcomes that guidenew technologyinvestments and implementation decisions to evolve the network technology stack

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

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

Participate in designing and improving incident management processes and collaborating with the team in troubleshooting strategies and fixing production issuesin a timely manner

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

Qualifications

7-10yearsexperiencein software development,preferablybuilding &operatinghighly; reliabledistributed systems

Bachelor’s/Master’sdegree in computer scienceor relevant engineering field or equivalent industry experience

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

Deep understanding ofL2/L3networking protocolsand 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

Expertisein automating deployments of applications into Kubernetes onx86 deployments

Experience with open source and networking technologies

📌 Senior Staff Engineer, Software Defined Dataplane (Toronto)
🏢 Equinix
📍 Toronto