Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. 

 

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: 
 
This position entails the development of greenfield platform services which authenticate and authorize provisioning APIs used for enabling various Equinix technology streams.  An ideal candidate would have 7+ years’ experience in the Clojure programming language, familiarity with Identity Access Management, as well as an advanced understanding of building 99.999 reliability in an AWS cloud environment.   
 
Responsibilities:
 
Software Architecture and Design 

• Collaborate on the design of a new IAM solution which integrates and coordinates with existing legacy systems to provide a seamless customer migration. 

• Create reliable deployment topologies and software designs which satisfies the 99.999 needs of our customers and application partners. 

Development/Coding 

• Experience in Clojure or other LISP based language. 

• Ability to create written documentation describing complex systems and interactions with existing components 

• Focus on quality, with an emphasis on building solid unit tests 

• Understanding of modern IAM constructs such as ABAC, RBAC, Federation / SSO, OpenId Connect, and authoring access policies 

 
DevOps

• Experience building 99.999 reliability in an AWS environment 

• Ability to craft CI/CD workflows and deployments in Github 

• Act as reliable point of contact for periodic SRE duties with experience tracking failures across multiple cloud components 

 
 Customer/Stakeholder Engagement 

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal 

• Ability to act as a consultant for internal and external stakeholders as they migrate to the new platform solutions 

• Customer focused with the ability to design systems and software increments which satisfy specific customer use cases 

 
 Qualifications:

 

· 7+ years experience 

· Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

The United States targeted pay range for this position