SDN Engineer (Product Software)
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- Work in a globally distributed development team on AI Inference open-source software
- Cultivate Equinix’s open-source presence and reputation in open-source organizations, standards bodies and more like Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Linux Foundation, etc. Interact with stakeholder(s) to understand and document the product features
- Provides a level of effort (LOE) for the product backlog. Work with technical project managers and product management teams to define a schedule
- Assist in the analysis & evaluation of new technologies to meet the demand for product roadmap and technology platform goals
- Help in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and platform
- Advocate and follow best design and development practices adhering to Engineering standards
- Prioritizing and parallelizing the tasks in hand and dealing with ad-hoc requests
- 5+ years of experience or related experience applying network and security principles within a cloud infrastructure deployment. Demonstrated experience in secure transport methods (SSH, TLS, IPSEC, Wireguard), IAM, VPCs and connectivity such as IaaS peering and VPN solutions
- Strong track record of delivering resilient network systems and services with a focus on delivering amazing experiences for end users
- Comfortable programming in languages such as Go, Python, C/C++, Rust
- A deep understanding of OSI Layer and its application
- 5+ years of experience or related experience in designing and building highly redundant SDN network infrastructure with an emphasis on L4/L7 proxying, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, SNI routing, mTLS, reverse proxy tools such as HAProxy, Envoy, NGINX, and API gateway Proxy
- DevOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions and review DORA metrics to improve processes
- Strong hands-on technical skills. Can drill deep into the complex network system design and implementation when needed. Familiarity with APIs and designing solutions to leverage interfaces to build network automation or capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring