Senior Staff Engineer, Equinix
Product Software
$163-245k
+ bonus
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Digital infrastructure company
Be an early applicant
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$163-245k
+ bonus
Office located in Redwood City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong experience with Java, microservices, APIs, databases, and distributed systems
- Experience with NFV, virtual networking, BGP, orchestration, and cloud-native platforms
- Experience leading technical designs and guiding engineers through complex implementations
- Strong problem-solving, technical decision-making, collaboration, and communication skills
What the job involves
- Designs and develops scalable software systems and provides technical leadership for complex engineering initiatives. Leads technical designs, guides engineers, evaluates trade-offs, and collaborates across Product, Architecture, Operations, and engineering teams
- Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Leads architecture and design for complex features and services
- Provides technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams
- Drives technical discussions and helps teams make sound design decisions
- Evaluates technical trade-offs across scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Mentors engineers and promotes engineering best practices
- Collaborates across teams to drive end-to-end solutions
- Software Engineering
- Designs and develops solutions using Java, microservices, APIs, and databases
- Drives integration across multiple services and platforms
- Leads design and code reviews and promotes software quality
- Designs orchestration and automation workflows
- Troubleshoots complex issues across application, infrastructure, and networking layers
- Network Edge / NFV
- Strong understanding of NFV concepts and VNF lifecycle management
- Experience with network/security vendors, VNF images, onboarding, upgrades, and migrations
- Strong knowledge of virtual networking, BGP, routing, VLAN/VXLAN, and network connectivity
- Experience with network/VNF performance characterization, throughput, latency, and troubleshooting
- Understanding of high availability, resiliency, and recovery architectures
- Cloud, Reliability & Operations
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, and cloud-native architectures
- Drives improvements in automation, observability, reliability, and operational readiness
- Supports production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and long-term engineering improvements
- Innovation
- Evaluates emerging technologies and recommends practical adoption
- Exposure to AI/LLM models and AI-enabled application architectures
- Identifies opportunities to improve platform architecture, performance, and engineering efficiency
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 at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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