Job Description
Principal Engineer For Npe Observability Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. A place where tech thinkers and future builders turn bold ideas into breakthrough experiences, we welcome your unique perspective. Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. 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 As the Principal Engineer for NPE Observability, you are the lead architect for the distributed systems that ingest, store, and analyze our global network state. You will bridge the gap between network protocols and big data patterns, designing high-performance ingestion engines capable of handling trillions of telemetry points. Your role is to architect massively parallel processing pipelines and stateful stream processing frameworks that enable real-time anomaly detection across our global infrastructure. You will build the high-throughput, low-latency data fabric that makes our network self-aware. Responsibilities Strategic Leadership & AI Evolution Visionary Roadmap: Define the multi-year architecture for a unified on-prem and telemetry ecosystem, evolving our global infrastructure into a self-healing "intelligent network" Network Data Strategy: Direct the lifecycle of network data, from GNMI/SNMP ingestion to structured storage, ensuring telemetry is normalized, consistent, and optimized for large-scale AI modeling AI Systems Architecture: Integrate industry-frontier practices in LLMOps, tool-use frameworks (MCP), and agentic workflows to accelerate incident root-cause analysis of telemetry data and automated remediation/alerting Advanced Network Telemetry & Big Data Systems Mastery: Arc