Equinix · 3 hours ago
Principal Engineer, Product Software
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$213K/yr - $319K/yr
10+ years expEquinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, enabling innovations that enrich our work, life, and planet. The Principal Engineer for NPE Observability will lead the architecture of distributed systems for network telemetry, designing high-performance ingestion engines and real-time anomaly detection frameworks across global infrastructure.
Cloud Data ServicesData CenterInformation TechnologyInfrastructureInternetSoftware
Responsibilities
Visionary Roadmap: Define the multi-year architecture for a unified on-prem and telemetry ecosystem, evolving our global infrastructure into a self-healing "intelligent network"
Network Data Strategy: Direct the lifecycle of network data, from GNMI/SNMP ingestion to structured storage, ensuring telemetry is normalized, consistent, and optimized for large-scale AI modeling
AI Systems Architecture: Integrate industry-frontier practices in LLMOps, tool-use frameworks (MCP), and agentic workflows to accelerate incident root-cause analysis of telemetry data and automated remediation/alerting
Systems Mastery: Architect the interplay between network and application layers, optimizing the computational processing across different network protocols
Distributed Data Pipelines: Design high-throughput, resilient pipelines proposing architectures to ingest trillions of events for predictive AIOps
Architectural Integrity: Enforce SOLID and Clean Architecture principles across network telemetry pipelines, observability data stores, and AI agent orchestration layers to ensure reliable, low-latency insight into network health
Cultural Leadership: Act as a force multiplier by bridging NetOps, DevOps, and Security to standardize the “MELT” (Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces) strategy across all global interconnection points
Mentorship: Level up Staff and Senior engineers through deep-dive design reviews and strategic coaching on network centric observability best practices
Qualification
Required
10+ years architecting distributed systems, high-scale observability platforms, or mission-critical network software
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a related field
Expert-level proficiency in Java and Go for building high-performance systems
Deep fluency in gNMI, SNMP and Flow protocols; extensive experience architecting on Kubernetes, Jenkins and ArgoCD
Proficiency and experience working with service provider networking technologies and protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, QoS, EVPN, VXLAN
Expert experience architecting distributed systems and high-scale observability fabrics, with a specialized mastery of OLAP and Time-Series Database architectures such as ClickHouse, Prometheus/Thanos, or InfluxDB
Proven track record of designing schemas and tuning storage engines for high-cardinality network telemetry (trillions of events), utilizing Kappa/Lambda patterns and stateful stream processing via Apache Flink and Kafka
Proven experience developing AI Agents using LLMs, including Function Calling, RAG, and agentic orchestration
Benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.
Company
Equinix
Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.27BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Crosslink Capital
2025-11-19Post Ipo Debt· $498.42M
2025-07-22Post Ipo Equity
2025-03-17Post Ipo Debt· $375.86M
Leadership Team
Adaire Fox-Martin
Chief Executive Officer & President
Keith Taylor
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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