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Job Summary:
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, enabling innovations that enrich our work and life. They are seeking a Staff Engineer in Product Software to design, build, and maintain scalable systems and APIs, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
• Translate complex business requirements into practical, performant, and maintainable system designs
• Work closely with our team and collaborate with cross functional teams to introduce and enhance our product capabilities for customers
• Provide technical leadership for the team of highly passionate engineers to evolve our products features
• Collaborate with others to develop software 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
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, distributed system issues with minimal oversight
• Champion API designs first principles and governance standards across the stack, ensuring all REST and gRPC interfaces are secure, uniform, well-documented, and built with a developer-first experience in mind.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the product you are working on and own incident response for services, including triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field of education
• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services with clean APIs using gRPC or HTTP
• Understanding of how networking works and how software defined networking works
• Deep analytical and problem-solving skills with a sense of curiosity
• Experience in a modern coding language like Go or Ruby/Ruby on Rails, willingness to become proficient in other languages as the needs arise
• Experience in creating fast feedback loops with CI/CD and testing automation
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and other container services
• Experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to document solutions and create architectural diagrams
• Ability to think strategically and execute with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basis
• Familiarity with operating at least one traditional SQL database; PostgreSQL is highly preferred
• Hardware management knowledge or at least notions of how servers get bootstrapped (automatically) in a data center
Preferred:
• Experience contributing to Open Source and interacting with Open Source communities is a plus
• Familiarity in leveraging AI-powered developer tools to accelerate development workflows
Company:
Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Redwood City, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.