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You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you-because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.Job Summary\nWe are looking for a hands-on Sr. Staff Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of Network Observability’s data and ETL layer. You will build the pipelines that collect network events, logs, and metrics at scale and turn them into correlated, enriched, decision-ready data that operators, customers, APIs, and AI agents can trust. You will be the feature lead for large, ambiguous problems. You will break them into use-case-driven increments that deliver value early, and you will write code, set technical direction, and raise the engineering bar for the team.\nResponsibilities\nFeature Leadership\nTurn large, loosely defined asks (e.g., “unified network health,” “proactive anomaly detection”) into use cases, data contracts, and phased delivery plans with clear MVPs and success metrics\nPartner with product, NOC, network engineering, and API teams to prioritize by operational impact, and decide when to build, buy, or adopt open source\nWrite design docs, drive architecture reviews, and lead by example in code and on-call\nTelemetry Ingestion & Processing\nBuild collection pipelines for SNMP, gNMI/streaming telemetry, syslog, and flow data on messaging platforms such as Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or Pulsar\nDefine schemas, serialization formats, and data contracts across producers and consumers\nBuild real-time processing in Apache Flink (or equivalent) for normalization, enrichment, deduplication, and correlation, and batch/backfill pipelines in Apache Spark\nDesign for well-understood delivery semantics, late and out-of-order data, replay, and data quality checks\nInsight, Correlation & Storage\nTurn raw events, logs, and metrics into decision-data, correlated across devices, links, and services and enriched with topology and inventory context\nSelect and design fit-for-purpose storage: ClickHouse or similar OLAP stores, Druid, Prometheus with Thanos (or similar), and ELK for logs and events\nOwn data modeling, retention, downsampling, and cost and performance trade-offs at scale\nAI-Native Development\nPartner with the Network API and AI teams so MCP servers and agents get governed, high-quality, well-documented data surfaces, with freshness and reliability included\nUse AI-assisted development tools in daily work and help set team practices for reviewing AI-generated code\nSupport building data tools for Observability MCP\nReliability & Technical Leadership\nDefine SLOs for pipeline freshness, completeness, and accuracy, and monitor the pipelines themselves\nLead RCA for complex issues such as data gaps, lag, cardinality explosions, and schema drift\nMentor engineers, review designs and code, and influence the multi-year data roadmap\nQualifications\nRequired\n7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time building large-scale data pipelines, streaming platforms, or telemetry systems\nDeep, hands-on experience with at least one major streaming platform (Kafka, Pulsar, NATS, RabbitMQ)\nProduction experience with stream processing (Flink or similar) and batch processing (Spark)\nStrong understanding of network observability data (events, logs, metrics) and protocols (SNMP, gNMI, syslog, flow data)\nExperience storing and querying telemetry at scale in ClickHouse, Druid, or similar, and in Prometheus/Thanos or similar timeseries systems\nWorking experience with ELK/Elastic (or OpenSearch)\nStrong programming skills in Java/Springboot, or Python\nDaily use of AI coding assistants, and familiarity with MCP or structured tool interfaces for AI agents\nProven ability to break down ambiguous problems into incremental deliveries and lead features end to end\nStrong written and verbal communication\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience\nPreferred\nExperience in network EMS/NMS, telecom, data center, or interconnection environments (e.g., Equinix Fabric)\nKnowledge of network concepts (BGP, OSPF, MPLS) and inventory/topology systems (CMDB, DCIM, graph models)\nExperience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, and Kubernetes-based data platforms\nExperience building data products for ML/AI use cases, or building and operating MCP servers\nOpen source contributions in streaming, observability, or data infrastructure\nWhat You'll Own\nThe architecture and roadmap of Network Observability’s ingestion, processing, and storage layers\nCorrelated, enriched, trustworthy network data that powers APIs, dashboards, and AI agents\nA use-case-driven delivery model that ships value in increments\nEquinix 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.\nEquinix 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.\nWe use artificial intelligence in our hiring process. 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