Staff Engineer, Product Software

Who are we?

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 bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

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

Equinix is the leading global interconnection platform, accelerating business performance by connecting companies to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. More than 4,800+ of the world’s most demanding customers trust us to provide a place where they can run their mission-critical applications and grow their businesses. Our dream is to interconnect the world – and create a historically significant company in the process. Today we are a $7 billion company with over 13,000+ employees worldwide, and we’re growing. Our global ecosystem is larger than our next 10 competitors combined, providing customers access to 2,000+ network services, 3,000+ cloud and IT services, 450+ content and digital media services, and 4,800+ enterprises.

If this sounds like the kind of company you’d like to work for, it gets better….
Equinix Software Architecture & Engineering team is on a mission to help build Equinix’s next-generation interconnection and SDN platform - Equinix internet Exchange. We are looking for excellent software engineers with a product-building mindset 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 and 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 the level of effort (LOE) for the product backlog. Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define detailed user stories and prepare 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 the platform

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

• Participate in the Design & Peer Code Review process

• Provides status reports to management & team leads 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 4+ years of professional software development experience

• Professional Experience: architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer-facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment

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

• Minimum 3+ years of backend expertise in application design & development with Java technologies, with knowledge of Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Message Queues & Workflow Engines with layered-microservices architecture

• Minimum of 2+ years of expertise in writing Test Automation scripts using Karate & Cypress

• Use a DevSecOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions and review DORA metrics to improve processes and consistently write fully secure code

• Knowledge on NexusIQ, SonarQube, Sonar Linting, DAST scans, DDoS attacks, Defensive Coding & Penetration Testing concepts

• Experience with database & caching technologies (Postgres, Oracle, Redis, and Timeseries Databases)

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

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.