Principal Engineer

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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 Engineer, Cloud Storage

Job Summary

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company. Much of the internet that you know flows through our interconnected network and data centers.

We're looking for a Principal Engineer who will drive the innovation, design, implementation, and improvement of large-scale systems with critical uptime requirements for the next phase of our growth.

Principals and above on the Edge Infra team are very much leaders with a seat at the table, but they’re hands-on. You will create and design, but you'll also implement those designs and model great engineering behavior for the team so we can grow.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of at least one major product area. Depending on the size and scope this could be a family of products
• Closely collaborate with other leadership, product management, and internal customers across Equinix on requirements and schedule
• Help directors and other managers staff projects with the right engineers
• Build an R&D culture, bootstrapping new solutions or dependencies as needed
• Foster an efficient build-it-and-run-it culture, blurring the lines between operations and development, reducing friction to fixing things that are broken
• Engage the global Equinix community internally and externally. Much of the work of the team will be freely available to the world through open-source

Qualifications

• You have a broad background writing software, and operating production systems at scale, in various contexts and have some specialties in modern cloud infrastructure and systems
• You have experience with networked storage (iSCSI, NVMe-TCP, RoCE, NFS, object storage, and MPIO) and able to explain at a high level to a CEO while going deep with technical teams
• Networks aren’t the network architects problem to solve, you’re in deep with them. MPLS, VXLAN, EVPN, DCB, PFC, and multicast are all network technologies you’re comfortable with
• You are equally happy writing an operator in k8s or dropping into the Linux kernel
• You have strong opinions about the direction of cloud infrastructure, but you hold them loosely and enjoy working with others to achieve the best outcomes
• You blur the lines between development and operations. The best team to debug a novel production problem is the team that wrote what’s running
• You're an expert in at least one programming language, proficient with several others, and have opinions about them all. You need to be able to build good, modular abstractions and motivate engineers who are building production software
• You make decisions with data when available, and push for making them available when they aren't
• You enjoy communicating through written English. As knowledge workers, we are effectively teachers and historians
• You're a servant leader, understanding that your team is successful because of you working to empower them and remove barriers

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.

French Translation

Responsabilités

• Diriger l'exécution d'au moins un domaine de produit majeur. En fonction de la taille et de la portée, il peut s'agir d'une famille de produits.
• Collaborer étroitement avec les autres dirigeants, la gestion des produits et les clients internes d'Equinix en ce qui concerne les exigences et le calendrier.
• Aider les directeurs et autres responsables à doter les projets des bons ingénieurs.
• Instaurer une culture de la recherche et du développement, en développant de nouvelles solutions ou dépendances selon les besoins.
• Favoriser une culture de construction et de gestion efficace, en brouillant les lignes entre les opérations et le développement, en réduisant les frictions pour réparer les choses qui ne fonctionnent pas.
• Engager la communauté mondiale d'Equinix en interne et en externe. Une grande partie du travail de l'équipe sera mise à la disposition du monde entier par le biais de logiciels libres.

Qualifications

• Vous avez une vaste expérience de l'écriture de logiciels et de l'exploitation de systèmes de production à grande échelle, dans divers contextes, et vous êtes spécialisé dans l'infrastructure et les systèmes modernes en nuage.
• Vous avez de l'expérience avec le stockage en réseau (iSCSI, NVMe-TCP, RoCE, NFS, stockage objet et MPIO) et êtes capable d'expliquer à un niveau élevé à un PDG tout en allant en profondeur avec les équipes techniques.
• Les réseaux ne sont pas un problème à résoudre pour les architectes de réseau, vous êtes en profondeur avec eux. MPLS, VXLAN, EVPN, DCB, PFC et multicast sont toutes des technologies de réseau avec lesquelles vous êtes à l'aise.
• Vous êtes tout aussi heureux d'écrire un opérateur en k8s que de vous plonger dans le noyau Linux.
• Vous avez des opinions bien arrêtées sur l'orientation de l'infrastructure en nuage, mais vous les tenez à l'écart et vous aimez travailler avec d'autres pour obtenir les meilleurs résultats.
• Vous brouillez les frontières entre le développement et les opérations. La meilleure équipe pour déboguer un nouveau problème de production est l'équipe qui a écrit ce qui fonctionne.
• Vous êtes un expert dans au moins un langage de programmation, vous en maîtrisez plusieurs autres et vous avez des opinions sur chacun d'entre eux. Vous devez être capable de construire de bonnes abstractions modulaires et de motiver les ingénieurs qui construisent les logiciels de production.
• Vous prenez des décisions en vous appuyant sur des données lorsqu'elles sont disponibles, et faites pression pour qu'elles le soient lorsqu'elles ne le sont pas.
• Vous aimez communiquer par écrit. En tant que travailleurs du savoir, nous sommes en fait des enseignants et des historiens.
• Vous êtes un leader au service des autres, conscient que le succès de votre équipe est dû au fait que vous vous efforcez de lui donner les moyens d'agir et de supprimer les obstacles.

The United States targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

• San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $179,000 to $304,000 per year

• California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $172,000 to $293,000 per year

• Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $159,000 to $271,000 per year

Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.

This position may be offered in other locations. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.

As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. Details about our company benefits can be found at the following link:

USA Benefits eBook

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.