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Form of workWho are we?
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.
Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
Job Profile
We are looking for a strong Principal Engineer to join our highly skilled team of Software and Infrastructure Engineers supporting a globally geo-distributed team, designing telemetry architectures worldwide for our Product team needs to get observability of our Equinix network.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience, but most importantly a passion, to deliver efficient, automated, on-demand platform services globally at scale. Able to design robust solutions with great performance. Besides that, the candidate will be leading, mentoring and guiding to our network experts engineers on achieving our goals to satisfied our customers’ requirements, following agile practices.
Responsibilities
- Designs operational Metrics (SNMP/gNMI/RESTful based Telemetry).
- Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements.
- Plans and designs architectures for features, participating in architectural review processes of Highly Available Real-time Distributed Data API systems.
- Establishes standards, frameworks and best practices for the team, following the Software Principles and Equinix guidelines.
- Technical leading to DevOps, developers and network engineers.
- Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source and continuously investigate technologies to refresh the team technical stack.
- Participates in cross-technical technical integration and peer reviews.
- Manages internal/external customer relationships and communication, working with all the Product Stakeholders.
- Ensures and enables ITIL compliance.
- Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define and plan multiple projects.
Skills & Experience
Software Design & Architecture
- Experience in software design solutions and as technical leader.
- Practical knowledge of relational/non-relational, time-series, OLAP databases.
- Previous hands-on experience in software development using Go and/or Python (or another programming language).
- Ability and willingness to work with agile methodology.
- Knowledge of Microservices and Microfrontends architectures.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Should have worked on Observability platforms or have strong knowledge of Observability/Telemetry systems.
- Expertise and experience in delivering large-scale systems using big data technologies including but not limited to: Enterprise scale Kafka, Splunk, Prometheus/Loki/Grafana stack, ELK stack and other Time Series databases.
- Experience in multi-threading and parallel programming solutions to solve big data problems.
- Knowledge of Data analytics and logging of applications.
DevOps Engineering
- Strong systems and software troubleshooting ability.
- Experience working with distributed systems.
- Deep Linux systems proficiency is a must.
- Experience with virtualisation and containerisation (QEMU, KVM, LXC, containered, docker).
- Experience handling on-prem Linux-based server infrastructure at scale with Configuration Management tools such as, but not limited to, Puppet or Ansible.
- Experience with delivering Kubernetes infrastructure at scale and/or delivering and operating applications on Kubernetes infrastructure. Our Kubernetes infrastructure is 100% vanilla, built upon FOSS components as well as our own tailoring.
- Proven understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with Secrets Management processes and tooling, such as HashiCorp Vault.
- Experience with CI / CD tooling (Jenkins, DroneCI, ArgoCD)
Additional strengths
- Experience with Networking and Routing is desirable.
Qualifications
- ~10+ years experience in the IT industry as FrontEnd and Backend engineer.
- ~5+ years experience as technical leader and designing solutions.
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.
