Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ 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 Description

If you worked in SaaS application development and operations, have experience in at least one programming language, and tools used in the DevOps practices excite you then you are our perfect candidate. You will be part of a world-class product engineering team that is paving the path for new ways for enterprises to consume ever-increasing cloud services.

Responsibilities

Configure and operate the infrastructure of SaaS applications with focus on automation and infrastructure as code.

Write code, integrate systems, and build configurations to drive and innovate around on-prem and public cloud-based platform across the organization.

Engage with Product Engineering in design, implementation, and maintenance of the build/release infrastructure.

Identify and troubleshoot any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment.

Evaluate performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity, and establish the appropriate scalability plans

Engage in incident resolution, build mitigation plans, and constantly improve observability of owned applications

Work with Product Engineering development teams to grow their knowledge and abilities to be self-sufficient while working with infrastructure

Improve overall developer experience by ensuring that tools and systems used by developers are easy to use, available and working in an efficient manner

Tools we use

Java, Python, Github Actions, JFrog, Nexus, SonarQube, Splunk, Honeycomb, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Casandra, Redis, Kafka, Marklogic, Oracle, Postgress, Kubernetes, Rancher, Istio, Terraform, AWS services, Rundeck, Temporal, LaunchDarkly, Amplitude, Qualtrics

Qualifications expected

6+ years of hands-on professional software development experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining customer facing applications at scale on-prem and/or in cloud environments.

Software Engineering

You have knowledge of:

• an Agile/Scrum SDLC
• event-driven architecture
• setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• twelve-factor app methodology

Infrastructure configuration and management

• You have experience in running production systems utilizing microservices and distributed systems architecture at scale
• You have a background in workload based on cloud-based system with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Containerization and orchestration

• You know how to build and operate Docker containers – design, construction, and optimization
• You have experience with defining and managing applications that operate on orchestration platforms
• You have working experience with service mesh configuration

Observability and monitoring

• You have experience with configuration and monitoring of an observability tool of choice

API Gateway Engineering

• You understand common API concepts and standards as well as aspects of data storage, service status and session handling

• You are familiar with API management system for high availability, resilience, and recovery
• You know how to deploy, configure, tune, and monitor API Gateways
• You know how to apply API policies and standards for security and standardization of an enterprise

Additional expectations

• Curiosity and ability to learn new tools
• Willingness to help others and openness to explain your way of thinking while solving issues
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience debugging complex problems
• English on a level that lets you work efficiently and discuss complex technical topics
• Proven record of driving changes in DevOps area and/or suggesting company-wide improvements to the existing tools and processes (nice to have)
• Experience in working with people from diverse cultures spread across the globe in different time zones (nice to have)

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

• San Francisco, CA / Bay Area:  $128,000 to $211,000