Principal Engineer, Cloud Storage in Frankfurt am Main bei Equinix

Job Summary

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company. Much of the internet that you know flows through our interconnected network and data centers.

We're looking for a Principal Engineer who will drive the innovation, design, implementation, and improvement of large-scale systems with critical uptime requirements for the next phase of our growth.

Principals and above on the Edge Infra team are very much leaders with a seat at the table, but they’re hands-on. You will create and design, but you'll also implement those designs and model great engineering behavior for the team so we can grow.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of at least one major product area. Depending on the size and scope this could be a family of products

• Closely collaborate with other leadership, product management, and internal customers across Equinix on requirements and schedule

• 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, reducing friction to fixing things that are broken

• Engage the global Equinix community internally and externally. Much of the work of the team will be freely available to the world through open-source

Qualifications

• 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

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