Senior Staff Network Engineer, Product Software

Equinix•Dallas, TX

2d•$136,000 - $204,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Principal Network Integration & Service Validation Engineer to lead end-to-end validation of network overlay services from customer portal request through orchestrator workflow, generated device configuration, control-plane convergence, data-plane forwarding, observability, and production-readiness sign-off. This role combines service-provider networking depth with strong QA discipline, automation mindset, and cross-functional leadership.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in service-provider, cloud networking, data center, telecom, or large enterprise network validation roles
Strong hands-on understanding of ISIS, ISIS-SR, BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, MPLS/SR label forwarding, route reflectors, RD/RT policy, and route convergence
Deep experience validating L2VPN/L3VPN services such as EPL, EVPL, EPLAN, EPTREE, EACCESS, IPWAN, and L3VRF
Strong troubleshooting skills using CLI, packet capture, route/label tables, telemetry, and observability dashboards
Experience testing orchestration platforms, intent-based workflows, network controllers, service activation systems, or device template pipelines
Ability to design QA strategy: test plans, test cases, traceability matrix, automation scope, regression suite, defect severity, exit criteria, and release sign-off
Experience with vendor platforms such as Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Arista, or equivalent service-provider routers/switches
Ability to explain complex networking concepts clearly to QA, development, product, and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

E2E validation strategy for network services across multi-metro and observability platforms.
Create test architecture covering portal inputs, orchestration workflows, service models, template rendering, device configuration, route propagation, label stack behavior and service health visibility
Validate orchestrator translation: service model, device templates, config rendering, pre-checks, approvals, rollback plan, and idempotency
Validate network device configuration: PE, CE-facing handoff, spine/core reachability, RR control-plane state, labels, route policies, and observability hooks
Validate control-plane correctness: RR-client relationships, route reflection behavior, RD/RT policy, EVPN route types, ISIS metrics, LSP flooding, loopback/SID advertisement, and ECMP path selection
Validate data-plane correctness: CE-to-CE traffic flow, MAC/IP learning, VLAN handoff, root/leaf restrictions, VRF isolation, overlapping IPs, label stack behavior, and egress PE service delivery
Lead observability validation using telemetry, logs, SNMP/gNMI, flow data, synthetic probes, graphs/data, SLA metrics, alarms, and service inventory reconciliation
Validate monitoring: alarms, counters, flow records, telemetry, portal status, service health, SLA metrics, and post-deployment dashboards
Record evidence: test cases, logs, screenshots, command outputs, defects, retest results, and final sign-off
Partner with product, portal, orchestration, network engineering, NOC/SRE, and customer teams to define release gates and production readiness
Create reusable test templates, automation frameworks, evidence standards, defect taxonomy, and traceability from requirements to test results
Mentor junior engineers and drive troubleshooting during integration, certification, staging, and production incidents