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Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

Job Summary

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 280+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Much of the internet that you know flows through our rapid interconnected network and data centers. As Equinix ’s network continues to evolve and grow, it’s essential for us to move towards autonomous operations – the automation and orchestration of network management tasks without human intervention. To achieve this, we’ll need a robust unified network model that accurately represents the network via real time telemetry for observability, which can also be used for intent-based configurations of the network. The unified modeling team in Network Platform Engineering is building this unified network model which feeds Equinix Brain, a strategic company-wide initiative to up-level the way we manage and use our asset data to improve margins and customer experience.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Staff Engineer to help us build and operate a highly scalable, available, and information-rich unified network model.

Responsibilities

Actively participate in the design, development, test, and operation of highly reliable services and software to model network entities and relationships that compose Equinix ’s global network

Provide technical guidance and collaborate with stakeholders to identify network data and use cases that can enrich the unified network model to solve critical business problems that increase network reliability, visibility, awareness, and the ability to plan

Develop solutions that leverage data from the unified network model to provide insights that enhance product capabilities for customers, aid operations teams to troubleshoot customer escalations and planning maintenances, and inform capacity planning teams

Facilitate cross-stakeholder discussions to ensure alignment on software requirements and design trade-offs, while considering performance, scalability, and reliability factors

Follow a proactive and collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration of unified network model into Equinix Brain with other domains and Network-As-A-Service (NaaS) initiatives

Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational best practices and standard methodologies

Participate in an on-call rotation

Qualifications

7+ years of experience developing distributed, scalable, highly available software services using Golang

Background of working for SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or cloud-based companies with prior experience of designing mi