Staff Fleet Services Software Engineer / Hardware Engineer

 Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Services


 Equinix 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 Summary




 Equinix Metal, a leading bare metal cloud provider, is looking to grow our software engineering team! If you are an experienced software engineer and looking to help build out services that will affect how the next generation of infrastructure and hardware is delivered to the world, join our team!




 




 This role is remote.




 




 Responsibilities




 This position is in the fleet services engineering team providing all of the services needed to inventory, control, provision and maintain Equinix Metal’s bare metal cloud hardware.  The successful candidate will contribute in the areas of hardware, data center and operating system automation.  You should have a passion for solving difficult problems related to servers at data center scale.  On a daily basis you will:




 
Live and breath the developer experience with the platform


 
Deal with ambiguity and drive to the heart of problems


 
Approach every day with a self-starter attitude and seek solutions


 
Validate new hardware and firmware configurations


 
Collaboratively write RFC’s / blueprints that establish our architecture


 
Help drive software design and improve our system architecture


 
Participate in on-call rotation to support your team's software in production


 
Deeply care about technology, our craft and team success


 
Work across teams and become familiar quickly with a variety of codebases


 
Ability to communicate clearly with all stakeholders




 




 Qualifications




 
Experience with a wide variety of server hardware


 
Experience with data center environments and remote management


 
Experience with Linux and troubleshooting both hardware and kernel issues


 
Ability to debug issues with hardware and firmware / root cause analysis


 
Golang or similar programming language fluency


 
Knowledge of containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes or other


 
Knowledge of modern CI technologies (ex. Buildkite / Jenkins)


 
Experience with git and github workflows


 
Code samples may be requested


 
A desire to learn


 
At least five years of relevant experience


 
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar




 




 Desirable experience




 
Experience with Equinix Metal / Packet products


 
Deep knowledge debugging operating system operation and configuration


 
Datacenter technology experience and ability to work on remote systems


 
Networking knowledge and the ability to debug networking issues


 
Available for weekly on-call rotation


 
Ability to document work