Principal Engineer, Product Software

Principal Engineer, Product SoftwareEquinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ 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 2,100 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 SummaryYou'll be a founding engineer for a new team building services and tools to help various internal customers understand and operate the infrastructure and workflows underpinning Equinix Metal. Operating and supporting a bare-metal cloud is a deeply challenging, multi-faceted undertaking, with many opportunities for sophisticated automation. Your team will have a broad remit aimed at ensuring that our backend tools, systems, and processes will help us effectively scale our infrastructure under management 8-10x in the coming years. This includes (but is not limited to) problems related to hardware asset management, debuggability of production systems, and automation of various currently manual processes. This team has the opportunity to fundamentally rethink the operator experience within Equinix Metal.We believe in autonomous, empowered teams who are given problem statements as inputs and produce APIs as outputs. What happens in between is up to the team. For this team in particular, we're starting largely from a clean sheet of paper. You will have both the freedom and the responsibility to guide the team to answer foundational questions concerning technology choice and team processes. Think Clojure is the ideal programming language for this team to rapidly iterate? Then go forth and iterate. We have paved roads, but if the team believes that going offroad is what will lead to customer value, feel free. You'll be held accountable for shipping software that your customers love at an indefinitely sustainable, healthy pace. How you achieve that is the team's choice.ResponsibilitiesAlong with a small team of engineers, conceive, architect, develop, and maintain internal administrative services and toolsClosely collaborate with product management and internal stakeholders to deeply understand and prioritize the highest value initiativesFoster an efficient build-it-and-run-it culture, blurring the lines between operations and development, reducing time to fix things that are brokenCollaborate with other principal engineers and technical leads to refine Equinix Metal's technical strategy and architectural directionEngage with the global Equinix community both internally and externallyQualificationsYou thrive under ambiguous conditionsYou've held technical leadership positionsYou've built significant cloud automation and designed distributed systems at large scaleYou've developed a philosophy of API design over the course of your careerYou're excited to work cross functionally, mentor other engineers, and lead by exampleYou model great engineering by writing and reviewing code and socializing the team’s workYou are motivated not just by building a technically good product, but also by doing it without burning out your fellow engineersYou know how to get something shipped with urgency, but without losing sight of long-term successYou enjoy communicating through written English. As knowledge workers and programmers, we are effectively teachers and historians both through human and technical languageYou are a servant leader, understanding that your team is successful because of you working to empower them and remove barriersEquinix 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.The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are: • San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $179,000 to $304,000 per year • California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $172,000 to $293,000 per year • Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $159,000 to $271,000 per year 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. Details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: USA Benefits eBookEquinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability.  If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.