Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software
Equinix•Redwood City, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Designs and develops scalable software systems and provides technical leadership for complex engineering initiatives. Leads technical designs, guides engineers, evaluates trade-offs, and collaborates across Product, Architecture, Operations, and engineering teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong experience with Java, microservices, APIs, databases, and distributed systems
- Experience with NFV, virtual networking, BGP, orchestration, and cloud-native platforms
- Experience leading technical designs and guiding engineers through complex implementations
- Strong problem-solving, technical decision-making, collaboration, and communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience with network/security vendors, VNF images, onboarding, upgrades, and migrations
- Strong knowledge of virtual networking, BGP, routing, VLAN/VXLAN, and network connectivity
- Experience with network/VNF performance characterization, throughput, latency, and troubleshooting
- Understanding of high availability, resiliency, and recovery architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, and cloud-native architectures
- Exposure to AI/LLM models and AI-enabled application architectures
Responsibilities
- Leads architecture and design for complex features and services
- Provides technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams
- Drives technical discussions and helps teams make sound design decisions
- Evaluates technical trade-offs across scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Mentors engineers and promotes engineering best practices
- Collaborates across teams to drive end-to-end solutions
- Designs and develops solutions using Java, microservices, APIs, and databases
- Drives integration across multiple services and platforms
- Leads design and code reviews and promotes software quality
- Designs orchestration and automation workflows
- Troubleshoots complex issues across application, infrastructure, and networking layers
- Strong understanding of NFV concepts and VNF lifecycle management
- Experience with network/security vendors, VNF images, onboarding, upgrades, and migrations
- Strong knowledge of virtual networking, BGP, routing, VLAN/VXLAN, and network connectivity
- Experience with network/VNF performance characterization, throughput, latency, and troubleshooting
- Understanding of high availability, resiliency, and recovery architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, and cloud-native architectures
- Drives improvements in automation, observability, reliability, and operational readiness
- Supports production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and long-term engineering improvements
- Evaluates emerging technologies and recommends practical adoption
- Exposure to AI/LLM models and AI-enabled application architectures
- Identifies opportunities to improve platform architecture, performance, and engineering efficiency
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Voluntary plans
- Retirement plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
