SDN Engineer, Product Software

Equinix•Toronto, ON

2d•$121,000 - $218,000

About The Position

Equinix is seeking highly motivated engineers to join their Interconnections Business Unit to take Equinix’s engagement in AI Inference Networking to the next level. This role involves transforming the service portfolio and revolutionizing AI Inference Networking by tapping into the open-source community. The company believes that a healthy, open ecosystem is critical to the future of AI Inference Networking technology. Equinix is the world’s biggest digital infrastructure company, serving 10,000 customers with a global footprint of 220+ data centers. The company culture is described as authentic, humble, and gritty, with a passion for winning and a customer-centric approach, emphasizing innovation to meet evolving customer needs and benefit society.

Requirements

5+ years of experience or related experience in designing and building highly redundant SDN network infrastructure with an emphasis on L4/L7 proxying, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, SNI routing, mTLS, reverse proxy tools such as HAProxy, Envoy, NGINX, and API gateway Proxy
5+ years of experience or related experience applying network and security principles within a cloud infrastructure deployment.
Demonstrated experience in secure transport methods (SSH, TLS, IPSEC, Wireguard), IAM, VPCs and connectivity such as IaaS peering and VPN solutions
A deep understanding of OSI Layer and its application
Strong track record of delivering resilient network systems and services with a focus on delivering amazing experiences for end users
Strong hands-on technical skills. Can drill deep into the complex network system design and implementation when needed.
Familiarity with APIs and designing solutions to leverage interfaces to build network automation or capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring
Comfortable programming in languages such as Go, Python, C/C++, Rust
DevOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions and review DORA metrics to improve processes

Nice To Haves

Passionate & familiar with the developer communities and contributing to open-source software

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, standards bodies and more like Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Linux Foundation, etc.
Interact with stakeholder(s) to understand and document the product features
Provides a level of effort (LOE) for the product backlog.
Work with technical project managers and product management teams to define a schedule
Assist in the analysis & evaluation of new technologies to meet the demand for product roadmap and technology platform goals
Help in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and platform
Advocate and follow best design and development practices adhering to Engineering standards
Prioritizing and parallelizing the tasks in hand and dealing with ad-hoc requests