Staff Software Engineer, Digital Integration Platform

Who are we? 

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.

The Role:

We are looking for a technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate Senior Engineer to take part in software engineering team responsible for a Digital Integration Platform that drives $6B+ revenue and comprises 800+ services connecting all the business systems.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for ensuring that customer facing Equinix Software Products are highly available, reliable, and performant through world-class monitoring, alerting, self-healing capabilities by applying software engineering practices 

• Spends approximately half the time with the core engineering teams advocating and contributing towards making our application services resilient and the remaining half the time with core site operations teams. 

• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Equinix software products towards preventing (pro-active) as well as troubleshooting and mitigating (re-active) service availability/performance issues 

• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor application services in a large-scale and complex environment 

• Being able to multi task and deliver in a fast paced, rapidly evolving technology landscape and participate in an on-call escalation for incident resolutions. 

• Participating in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams.

• Participating in architecture discussions and planning

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

• Participate in Design & Peer Code Review process 

Requirements:

• A high sense of ownership, passion for Platform Product development

• Bachelor's/Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Technology or other equivalent field experience.

• 5+ years of managing and leading a team of software professionals responsible for highly distributed software platforms/systems.

• 2+ years of operational understanding of Virtualization, Containerization ecosystem including Docker & Kubernetes.

• Experience in API Development Platform like TIBCO and API Management platforms like Apigee, MuleSoft is preferrable.

• Experience in RESTful API development and GraphQL.

• Experience optimizing a high traffic website for robustness and scale-out Architecture.

• Experience in technologies like Cassandra, Kafka, Oracle database & JMS is a plus

• Expertise in troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and the tools necessary to do so, such as tcpdump, etc.

• Experience in providing global support coverage is a plus.

• Experience with AWS Cloud & Networking Concepts is a plus

Qualifications

• 1+ years professional experience in a software development leadership role

• Bachelor's in Engineering preferred

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.​