Sr Associate Engineer, Product Software
Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 245+ 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 2,000+ networks and 3,000 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
Equinix Metal, a leading bare metal cloud provider, is looking to grow our software engineering team! If you are an experienced software engineer and looking to help build out services that will affect how the next generation of infrastructure and hardware is delivered to the world, join our team!
Responsibilities
This position is in the fleet services engineering team providing all of the services needed to inventory, control, provision and maintain Equinix Metal’s bare metal cloud hardware. The work will contribute in the areas of hardware, data center and operating system automation. You should have a passion for solving difficult problems related to servers at data center scale. On a daily basis you will:
- Live and breath the developer experience with the platform
- Deal with ambiguity and drive to the heart of problems
- Approach every day with a self-starter attitude and seek solutions
- Validate new hardware and firmware configurations
- Collaboratively write RFC’s / blueprints that establish our architecture
- Help drive software design and improve our system architecture
- Participate in on call rotation to support this product team's software in production
- Deeply care about technology, our craft and team success
- Ability to communicate clearly with all stakeholders
Qualifications
- 3 years experience
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar
- Experience with Linux and troubleshooting both hardware and kernel issues
- Ability to debug issues with hardware and firmware / root cause analysis
- Golang or similar programming language fluency
- Experience with the git workflow
- Code samples may be requested
- A desire to learn
Desirable Experience
- Experience with Equinix Metal / Packet products
- Deep knowledge debugging operating system operation and configuration
- Datacenter technology experience and ability to work on remote systems
- Knowledge of modern CI technologies (ex. Buildkite / Jenkins)
- Knowledge of containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes or other
- Networking knowledge and the ability to debug networking issues
- Available for weekly on-call rotation
- Ability to document work
The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:
- San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $111,000 to $185,000
- California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $104,000 to $172,000
- Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $94,000 to $156,000
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. To help you achieve professional and personal goals, we provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that include a blend of rewards to attract, motivate, recognize, and retain talented people like you. We offer you key rewards including base pay and incentive pay, benefits for health and wellness, retirement plans for your future, and recognition programs. We’re committed to our employees by providing ongoing dialogue, education and resources that enable you to thrive and make informed decisions at each life stage.
Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you need assistance in applying for an open position, you may send an email to Staffing@equinix.com. Please provide your contact information and let us know how we can assist you.
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.
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