SDN Engineer, Product Software

Equinix • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

Equinix is seeking an engineer to help advance its AI Inference Networking service portfolio and open-source software engagement. The role is part of the Equinix Interconnections Business Unit and works with a globally distributed development team. The engineer will contribute to AI Inference open-source software, strengthen Equinix’s presence in open-source organizations and standards bodies, and help define and deliver product features and platform capabilities.

The position involves collaborating with stakeholders, technical project managers, and product management teams to understand requirements, estimate effort, plan schedules, evaluate technologies, and implement product features. The engineer is expected to apply strong network and security expertise, deliver resilient systems, and follow sound design and development practices. The role also calls for contributing to network automation and capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring, and improving CI/CD processes using a DevOps mindset.

The targeted annual base pay ranges are USD 121,000–181,000 in Dallas, USD 146,000–218,000 in Redwood City, and CAD 102,000–152,000 in Toronto. Bonus eligibility applies; equity may be offered depending on the position. The posting describes employee benefits and states that this is a new position within the organization.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience designing and building highly redundant SDN network infrastructure, with emphasis on L4/L7 proxying, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, SNI routing, mTLS, reverse proxy tools such as HAProxy, Envoy, and NGINX, and API gateway proxy.
• At least 5 years of experience applying network and security principles within a cloud infrastructure deployment.
• Demonstrated experience with secure transport methods including SSH, TLS, IPSEC, and WireGuard; IAM; VPCs; and connectivity such as IaaS peering and VPN solutions.
• Deep understanding of the OSI layers and their application.
• Strong track record delivering resilient network systems and services with a focus on end-user experience.
• Strong hands-on technical skills and ability to investigate complex network system design and implementation.
• Familiarity with APIs and designing solutions that use interfaces to build network automation or capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring.
• Comfort programming in languages such as Go, Python, C/C++, or Rust.
• A DevOps mindset and experience improving CI/CD using GitHub Actions and reviewing DORA metrics.

Responsibilities

• Work in a globally distributed development team on AI Inference open-source software.
• Cultivate Equinix’s open-source presence and reputation in open-source organizations and standards bodies, such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation.
• Interact with stakeholders to understand and document product features.
• Provide level-of-effort estimates for the product backlog.
• Work with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedules.
• Assist in analyzing and evaluating new technologies to meet product roadmap and technology platform goals.
• Help evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies for product features and platforms.
• Advocate and follow best design and development practices in accordance with engineering standards.
• Prioritize and parallelize tasks and handle ad-hoc requests.
• Help deliver resilient network systems and services with a focus on end-user experience.
• Contribute to network automation or capabilities such as dashboarding and monitoring.
• Improve CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and review DORA metrics.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program.
• Health or healthcare insurance coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Voluntary or optional benefit plans.
• Retirement or savings plans, including a Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Group Retirement Savings Plan, and Tax-Free Savings Plan in Canada.
• Accrued paid time off, vacation or personal time, and paid holidays.
• Bonus eligibility; equity may be offered depending on the position.

What This Job Offers

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