Staff Engineer, Product Software

As a key member of the Equinix Product Engineering function, you will be involved in the software development life cycle and focus on delivering solutions for Interconnection product systems

Work in a globally distributed development team environment with minimal supervision

Hands-on Architecture, Design, Development, Automation Testing & Support of Software Products and Solutions

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

Provides the level of effort (LOE) for the product backlog. Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define detailed user stories and prepare a schedule

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

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

Help in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and the platform

Advocate and follow best design and development practices, adhering to Engineering standards

Participate in the Design & Peer Code Review process

Provides status reports to management & team leads and helps with release management planning

Breaking down the big features and user stories into granular components and development tasks considering different geo-locations

Prioritizing and parallelizing the tasks in hand and dealing with ad-hoc requests

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of professional software development experience

Professional Experience: architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer-facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment

Strong programming foundation with knowledge in Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Patterns

Minimum 3+ years of backend expertise in application design & development with Java technologies, with knowledge of Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Message Queues & Workflow Engines with layered-microservices architecture

Minimum of 2+ years of expertise in writing Test Automation scripts using Karate & Cypress

Use a DevSecOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions and review DORA metrics to improve processes and consistently write fully secure code

Knowledge on NexusIQ, SonarQube, Sonar Linting, DAST scans, DDoS attacks, Defensive Coding & Penetration Testing concepts

Experience with database & caching technologies (Postgres, Oracle, Redis, and Timeseries Databases)

•Experience in architecting and building large-scale systems using a scale-out architecture that requires high availability, performance, high scalability, and multi-tenancy

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