Equinix

Principal Engineer, Cloud Storage

Skills

Programming LanguagesEthernet VPNLinux KernelMPIONVM ExpressNetwork File SystemObject Storage

Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

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

Drive execution of at least one major product area, which could be a family of products
Collaborate closely with other leadership, product management, and internal customers across Equinix on requirements and schedules
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 and reducing friction to fix issues
Engage the global Equinix community internally and externally, with much of the team's work being freely available through open-source