Staff Engineer, Product Software

Equinix • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

The Staff Engineer for the daVinci Network Observability team serves as the lead technical authority for designing and implementing Equinix’s global telemetry fabric. The role connects high-scale distributed software with global network hardware and drives complex, data-intensive initiatives. It owns the technical integrity of streaming pipelines, ensuring telemetry from the global fleet is ingested, normalized, and processed with sub-second latency. As a specialist in software patterns and high-throughput systems, this engineer drives technical excellence within the Network Platform Engineering group.

The position translates architectural blueprints into automation strategies and scalable infrastructure, drives engineering milestones aligned with the long-term NPE vision, and leads complex system implementations for real-time streaming telemetry and high-performance databases. It also translates product requirements into technical specifications, defines service-level metrics, supports global ITIL compliance, and leads root-cause analysis and resolution of cross-platform outages. The role evaluates emerging technologies, including Model-Driven Telemetry, and establishes practices for proving concepts and managing change.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering or distributed systems.
• At least 3 years of experience in large-scale network engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Mastery of SOLID principles and Clean Architecture applied to Big Data.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, and SQL.
• Expert understanding of Model-Driven Telemetry and the ability to optimize gNMI over SNMP for high-scale environments.
• Experience with service provider networking technologies and protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, QoS, EVPN, and VXLAN.
• Hands-on expertise with Apache Flink, Kafka, Clickhouse, Prometheus, Thanos, and Kubernetes.
• Expert-level Python or Go skills.
• Experience building custom collectors or API integrations for network operating systems such as Junos, Nokia, or Arista.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level architectural blueprints into hands-on automation strategies and scalable infrastructure for global visibility.
• Drive engineering milestones and ensure delivered code aligns with the long-term Network Platform Engineering vision.
• Lead complex system implementations and establish engineering standards for real-time streaming telemetry and high-performance databases.
• Translate product requirements into technical specifications and manage relationships with internal and external customers.
• Define critical SLA metrics and ensure the observability platform maintains global ITIL compliance.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for complex root-cause analysis and resolution of cross-platform outages.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including Model-Driven Telemetry, to advance the platform.
• Prove out new concepts and define change-management practices that influence broader business strategy.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program.
• Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for employees and eligible family members.
• Retirement plan with contributions from the employee and Equinix.
• Accrued paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Employees are eligible for a bonus; equity may be offered depending on the position.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior