Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

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 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.

Job Summary:

Analyzes business requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Designs and develops software systems.
 

Job Responsibilities:

As a key member of the Equinix Emerging Services Engineering team you will be involved in the development lifecycle from design, implementation, testing and support with a focus on delivering solutions adhering to business goals, technical requirements and engineering standards.

• Design, Development & Support of Software Products and Solutions.




• Develop unit test plans, test suites, and perform tests on software solutions.




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




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




• Solve bugs, engage in trouble shooting, and interact with the internal developer community.




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




• Evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and platform.




• Advocate and Follow best design and development practices adhering to Engineering standards.




• Self-starter, team collaboration and good communication skills.




• Participate in Design & Peer Code Review process.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field with 7+ years of professional software development experience.




• Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies and protocols used in SDN and datacenter network. L2/L3 forwarding, DHCP, EVPN.




• 2 years working experience and proficient in Golang … or 5 years of C/C++ 3 years Python language is also a bonus.




• Experience and knowledge of REST API development.




• Experience using RDBMS and/or NoSQL technologies.




• Hands-on experience with public cloud such as AWS, Azure or GCP.




• Hands-on experience with K8S, docker and good understanding of virtualization technologies.




• Hands-on experience in designing micro-services & SOA based applications.




• Solid knowledge in Linux Kernel Architecture, Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns. Experience with Linux or Window system bring up is also a bonus.




• Agile-scrum methodology experience in a software development team.




• Excellent communication, organization and presentation skills.

R&D/Innovation:

• Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies.




• Influences senior management in setting the organization's technical objectives.




• Keeps abreast of new developments to help define the necessary changes to practice.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience.




• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.