Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software

Equinix • Redwood City, CA

23h

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 The Senior Associate Engineer for NPE Observability is a key contributor to the development and maintenance of Equinix’s global telemetry platform. In this role, you will build and optimize the pipelines that collect and process data from our global network. You will bridge the gap between software development and network engineering, ensuring our observability tools are scalable, reliable, and automated. This is a role for an engineer who is passionate about clean code, distributed systems, and the inner workings of large-scale service provider networks.

Requirements

• Experience: 3–5 years in software engineering, including 1–2 years working withing an enterprise or service provider networking environment
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Coding Standards: Solid understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns in Java or Go
• Networking Fundamentals: Practical experience with major vendors (Cisco, Arista, or Juniper) and their respective Yang model implementations. Proficiency and experience working with service provider networking technologies and protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, QoS, EVPN, VXLAN, etc.
• Technical Requirements: Proficiency in SQL, exposure to Kafka or Flink, and hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack
• Infrastructure: Experience deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes (K8s), Jenkins and ArgoCD

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Thanos or scripting in Python/Puppet

Responsibilities

• Execution & Infrastructure Clean Implementation: Develop and maintain scalable, automated code for our on-premise telemetry infrastructure, ensuring all contributions follow team standards and "Clean Code" principles
• Operational Excellence: Provide consistent technical updates on project milestones and actively integrate industry-standard CI/CD and automation tools into the development lifecycle
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify bottlenecks or friction points within the telemetry data pipelines and propose effective, automated solutions to improve performance
• Support & Reliability Incident Response: Act as a technical point of contact for incident resolution, performing root-cause analysis to ensure system uptime
• Compliance & Monitoring: Assist in defining SLA metrics and ensuring that daily deployments remain ITIL compliant
• Stakeholder Interaction: Serve as a reliable contact for internal teams regarding their telemetry and monitoring needs
• R&D Contribution Technical Research: Investigate new observability tools to help define future engineering practices
• Skill Development: Stay current with the latest trends in the observability and AIOps space, contributing to new features that align with the broader Network Platform Engineering strategy

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.
• US 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level