Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software

Equinix • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. A place where tech thinkers and future builders turn bold ideas into breakthrough experiences, we welcome your unique perspective. Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work. Job Summary Equinix is building the next generation of private, deterministic connectivity for AI services and multi-cloud platforms. As part of the Fabric Intelligence team, you will work on core platform components that enable enterprises and AI service providers to securely discover, connect, and operate private services at global scale. This role sits at the intersection of network infrastructure, distributed systems, and platform automation, with a strong emphasis on correctness, observability, and operational excellence. You will work closely with senior engineers and architects while owning well-scoped components and contributing to end-to-end system behavior. This is a hands-on engineering role with real production impact.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of professional software engineering experience in infrastructure, platform, or networking-adjacent systems
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Go, Python, or similar
• Experience building or operating distributed systems in production environments
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing, and load balancing
• Experience with Linux-based systems and debugging production issues
• Familiarity with observability tools and metrics-driven operations
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in a cross-functional environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience with BGP, IPSec, VPNs, or proxy technologies (e.g., HAProxy, Envoy)
• Exposure to cloud networking concepts (VPC/VNet, private connectivity, hybrid networking)
• Experience working on control planes, policy engines, or automation workflows
• Familiarity with AI or ML infrastructure concepts is a plus but not required
• Experience operating systems with strict correctness, security, or availability requirements

Responsibilities

• Build and operate platform services that enable private connectivity and service access over Equinix Fabric
• Develop and maintain control-plane and data-plane components supporting Private Service Exchange connectivity, including policy evaluation, routing decisions, and configuration workflows
• Work with networking technologies such as BGP, IPSec, and L4/L7 proxies as part of a larger distributed system
• Contribute to deterministic routing, failover behavior, and latency-aware decision logic.
• Implement observability and telemetry for correctness, stability, and customer-facing signals
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including network engineering, product management, and SRE
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations appropriate to the role

Benefits

• Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
• Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.
• Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed