Principal Engineer, Cloud Storage - Equinix : Job Details

Who are we?

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.

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.

Pay Range

• 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.