Sr. Principal Engineer - Equinix Metal

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and service providers. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed. 

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. 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: Manages and resolves company-wide technical issues. Keeps abreast of new technologies and scientific methods affecting the organization and drives their adoption. Conceives plans and conducts research in problem areas or new technology of considerable scope and complexity.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis

• Relates long-term business objectives to technical strategies and innovative problem solution




• Identifies, documents, and manages risk associated with product development

Software Architecture

• Evangelizes and communicates technical strategy and architectural blue prints to mobilize large teams of engineers to move rapidly to software realization

Software Design

• Selects technologies for incorporation into future products

Development/Coding

• Evangelizes development of team members with standards and approved design and coding patterns

Testing

• Responsible for software quality control

DevOps

• Develops Equinix strategy for DevOps culture




• Learns and coaches teams towards success




• Aligns team deliverables to Equinix Vision and Business Strategy




• Develops innovation strategies and best practices for the tools adoption within the organization

Software Reliability & Support Engineering

• Identifies, documents and improves on the overall process for production support




• Cultivates "customer first" attitude by incorporating best in class industry practices




• Builds software incident and problem governance models to improve customer satisfaction

Customer/Stakeholder Engagement

• Serves as a technical liaison for customer advisories, co-innovations, and single point of contact for incidents




• Influences customer cycles and participates in industry forums and standard bodies

Technical Project Management

• Participates in and facilitates decision making related to product release; is part of the larger company wide programs from concept to deliver




• Participates in planning cycles

R&D/Innovation

• Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies




• Influences senior management in setting the organization's technical objectives




• Keeps abreast of new developments to help define the necessary changes to practice




• Has a significant impact on future products, technologies and business strategy

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience




• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.