Staff 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 The Staff Engineer for NPE Observability is the lead technical authority for the design and implementation of Equinix’s global telemetry fabric. You bridge the gap between high-scale distributed software and global network hardware, driving the execution of our most complex data-intensive initiatives. You own the technical integrity of our streaming pipelines, ensuring that telemetry from the global fleet is ingested, normalized, and processed with sub-second latency. As a master of software patterns and a specialist in high-throughput systems, you are the primary driver of technical excellence within the Network Platform Engineering (NPE) group.

Requirements

• Tenure: 5+ years in software engineering/distributed systems and 3+ years in large-scale network engineering
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Software Excellence: Mastery of SOLID and Clean Architecture applied to Big Data; proficiency in Java, Go, and SQL
• Networking Depth: Expert understanding of Model-Driven Telemetry; ability to optimize gNMI over SNMP for high-scale environments. Proficiency and experience working with service provider networking technologies and protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, QoS, EVPN, VXLAN
• Technical Stack: Hands-on expertise with Apache Flink, Kafka, Clickhouse, Prometheus, Thanos, and Kubernetes
• Automation Mastery: Expert-level Python or Go skills; experience building custom collectors or API integrations for network OS (Junos, Nokia, Arista, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture & Execution From Vision to Reality: Translate high-level architectural blueprints into hands-on automation strategies and scalable infrastructure that powers our global visibility
• Roadmap Ownership: Drive the engineering team toward key milestones, ensuring that the code we ship aligns with the long-term NPE vision
• Lead System Design: Lead the team through complex implementations, establishing the gold standard for how we handle real-time streaming telemetry and high-performance databases
• Reliability & Support Engineering Stakeholder Synthesis: Translate complex product requirements into technical specifications, managing relationships with internal and external customers
• Service Standards: Define critical SLA metrics and ensure the observability platform maintains global ITIL compliance
• Incident Leadership: Serve as the senior point of contact for complex root-cause analysis and the resolution of cross-platform outages
• Innovation & R&D Hands-on Research: Evaluate emerging technologies Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT) to keep the platform at the cutting edge
• Process Influence: Prove out new concepts and define change-management practices that impact the broader business 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