.Who are we?Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating over 250 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed.Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners, and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.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.Principal Software Engineer, Software Networking at Equinix Metal Job SummaryEquinix Metal, a leading bare metal cloud provider, is looking for a Principal Engineer for our Software Networking Team. In this role, you will be responsible for being a technical leader, mentor to more junior engineers, and an active contributor to our internal systems/codebases for network control plane and software network orchestration stack. This role can be remote or based in one of our office locations.Responsibilities Architect, design, and develop network orchestration microservices and features for a bare metal cloud that scales and provides a way to interconnect across the Equinix ecosystem.Deeply care about technology, your craft, and about the success of your teammates and the company - strong intrinsic motivators to help drive self-improvement is a must.Provide technical leadership for the team of highly passionate engineers to evolve our software networking features.Work closely with our team and collaborate with cross-functional teams to introduce and enhance product capabilities for customers and operation teams.Collaborate with the architects driving the technical strategy and direction for our large-scale cloud services, driving simplicity, high reliability, ease of maintenance, and operation.Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational standard methodologies.Actively participate in continuous improvement of process and systems that support our software development lifecycle (SDLC), values, and culture.Participate in an on-call rotation (roughly two weeks per quarter).Qualifications Proven experience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services using Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python, or other similar languages