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Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.
Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
Principal Software & Infrastructure Architect
Job Profile
We are looking for a strong Principal Software Engineer to join our highly skilled and globally geo-distributed team, designing solutions for monitoring, troubleshooting and getting telemetry from our Equinix worldwide network.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience on designing and developing robust architectures dealing with big data, establishing standards and guidance for engineering teams to follow, ensuring the quality of the software. Our candidate should have passion to deliver efficient, automated, and well performed systems globally at scale to ensure the wellness of our Network and following agile methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Designs operational Metrics (SNMP/gNMI/RESTful based Telemetry).
- Leads, coaches and mentors to developers, network engineers and DevOps, closing the bridge between these areas.
- Plans, designs and develops architectures for features, participating in architectural review processes of Highly Available Real-time Distributed Data API systems.
- Establishes standards, frameworks and best practices for the team, following the Software Principles and Equinix guidelines.
- Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source and continuously investigate technologies to refresh the team technical stack.
- Participates in cross-technical integration and peer reviews.
- Manages internal/external customer relationships, working with all the Product Stakeholders in order to design the proper solutions.
- Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define and plan multiple projects.
Skills & Experience
Software Design & Architecture
- Strong coding and programming knowledge following security protocols and best practices.
- Leadership skills to mentor and coach team members.
- Knowledge of microservices architectures with data streaming and analytics (Apache Flink, RisingWave, etc.).
- Expertise and experience in delivering large-scale systems using big data and microservices common technologies including but not limited to: Kafka, Splunk, Prometheus/Loki/Grafana stack, ELK stack, APIGEE, K8s, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, OLAP databases.
- Knowledge of essential programming languages like Java, Python, GoLang, ReactJS, Angular, etc.
- Practical knowledge of relational/non-relational, time-series, OLAP databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Prometheus, Imply, ClickHouse, Firebolt, etc).
- Should have worked on Observability platforms or have strong knowledge of Observability/Telemetry systems.
- Experience in multi-threading and parallel programming solutions to solve big data problems.
- Knowledge of Data analytics and logging of applications.
- Familiarity with software engineering (GIT, Jenkins, ElasticSearch, etc.) and project management tools (JIRA, etc.).
DevOps Engineering
- Strong systems and software troubleshooting ability.
- Experience working with distributed systems.
- Deep Linux systems proficiency is a must.
- Experience with virtualisation and containerisation (QEMU, KVM, LXC, containrs, docker, etc.).
- Experience handling on-prem Linux-based server infrastructure at scale with Configuration Management tools such as, but not limited to, Puppet or Ansible.
- Experience with Secrets Management processes and tooling, such as HashiCorp Vault.
- Experience with CI / CD tooling (Jenkins, DroneCI, ArgoCD, BuildKIT, etc).
Networking
- Experience with Networking and Routing is desirable.
Additional strengths
- Ability and willingness to work with agile methodologies.
- Understanding of software testing and quality assurance practices.
- Comfortable in a team-oriented environment.
- Communication, collaboration skills and problem-solving mindset.
Qualifications
- 10+ years experience in the IT industry as Backend engineer.
- 5+ years experience as technical leader and designing solutions in data streaming and analytics.
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form .
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.