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Principal Engineer, Product Software

Job Summary
Provides appropriate design solutions. Verifies stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of architecture. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide scalable and secure solutions.

Responsibilities
Requirements Analysis

• Understands, reads, and reviews requirements

• Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements

• Interacts with product management teams to understand product requirements and define product roadmaps

Software Architecture

• Participates in architectural review process

• Defines architecture, presents to the product management team, to ensure that the architecture is aligned with the product roadmap

Software Design

• Provides technical leadership to team for design of multiple products

• Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source

• Evaluates third party and off the shelf solutions to influence build vs. buy decisions

Development/Coding

• Participates in cross-technical technical integration and peer reviews

• Writes code based off of open source and third party packages

Testing

• Sets testing standards and recommends testing frameworks

DevOps

• Articulates a vision of on-prem and cloud infrastructure and drives its realization

• Provides executive team with updates aligning with the vision, charter and roadmap

• Participates in customer meetings to understand the Cloud and DevOps vision

• Brings in industry tools automation expertise and aligns Equinix practices accordingly

• Develops innovative solutions, processes and best practices by leading internal technical teams

Software Reliability & Support Engineering

• Manages internal/external customer relationships and communication, working with all the Product Stakeholders

• Participates in customer calls to understand issues and provide solutions

• Defines and publishes the SLA metrics and the compliance reports

• Ensures and enables ITIL compliance

Customer/Stakeholder Engagement

• Serves as a technical liaison for customer advisories, co-innovations, and single point of contact for incidents

Technical Project Management

• Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule on multiple projects

• Provides overall project status reporting

• Manages and influences cross-functional release cycle

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

• Has a significant impact on future products, technologies and business strategy

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

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.

The United States targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are: • San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $179,000 to $304,000 per year • California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $172,000 to $293,000 per year • Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $159,000 to $271,000 per year Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. This position may be offered in other locations. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process. The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position. As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. Details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: USA Benefits eBook

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