Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

Who are we?

Job Summary

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together a fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. 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.

If this sounds like the kind of company, you’d like to be part of, it gets better….
Equinix Software Architecture & Engineering team is on a mission to help build Equinix’s next-generation interconnection and SDN platform - Equinix Cloud Exchange. We are looking for excellent software developers to join this team to build a next-generation SDN-based platform.

Responsibilities

• As a key member of the Equinix Product Engineering function, you will be involved in the software development life cycle with a focus on delivering solutions for Interconnection product systems

• Work in a Globally Distributed Development team environment with minimal supervision.

• Hands-on Architecture, Design, Development, Automation Testing & Support of Software Products and Solutions

• Interact with stakeholder(s) to understand and document the product feature(s)

• Provides a level of effort (LOE) for the product backlog. Work with technical project managers and product management teams to define a schedule

• Integrate software product(s) with other systems, test interfaces, and manage version control

• Assist in the analysis & evaluation of new technologies to meet the demand for the product roadmap and technology platform goals

• Help in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and platform

• Advocate and follow best design and development practices adhering to Engineering standards

• Participate in Design & Peer Code Review process

• Provides status reports and helps with release management planning

• Breaking down the big features and user stories into granular components and development tasks considering different geo-locations

• Prioritizing and parallelizing the tasks in hand and dealing with ad-hoc requests

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field with 7+ years of professional software development experience

• Minimum 5+ years of Full-stack expertise in application design & development with Java/Go technologies with knowledge of Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Message Queues & Workflow Engines with microservices architecture

• Minimum of 5+ years of expertise in writing Test Automation scripts using Karate & Cypress

• DevOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions and review DORA metrics to improve processes

• Strong programming foundation with knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Patterns

• Nice to have 5+ years of experience with JavaScript, React, Angular, and HTML5/CSS3

• 3+ years of experience with database technologies (NoSQL, SQL, and Time-series Databases)

• Hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery using public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and container technologies such as Docker, Rancher, etc.

• Experience in architecting and building large-scale systems using a scale-out architecture that requires high availability, performance, high scalability, and multi-tenancy

The United States targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

• San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $143,000 to $235,000 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:

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Equinix 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.

Equinix 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.