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

Equinix is transforming how the world connects. If you are ready for a new challenge, come join our team and let’s make hybrid multi-cloud networking awesome. We are seeking the right person, with the right mindset and skillset to tap into the open-source community to fuel this journey. We believe that a healthy, open ecosystem is critical to the future of hybrid multi-cloud networking technology. The Equinix Digital Services Business Unit is looking for highly motivated, engineers to take Equinix’s engagement in hybrid multi-cloud networking open source to the next level.

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

Software Architecture

• Participates in architectural and design review process

Software Design

• Multiple modules design and participate in overall product design

• Evaluate and recommend adoption of open source (pivot points to Software Architecture job family)

Development/Coding

• Develop scripts and code for a feature and multiple modules and product

• Cross-technical integration

• Participates in peer reviews

• Adoption of standard coding processes

Testing

• Develop unit tests

• Fixes defects

• Develop test strategies

• Recommends testing frameworks

DevOps

• Defines roadmap of automation tools and its value to software engineering practices

• Drives infrastructure provisioning working with cross-domain teams and works on projecting future infrastructure capacity

• Takes accountability of the Design Reviews and deliverables

Software Reliability & Support Engineering

• Defines roadmap of production change control and its value to software engineering practices

• Drives certification processes working with cross-domain teams

• Takes accountability of the Operational SLAs

• Debugs L2 and L3 incidents/problems

Technical Project Management

• Provides level of effort (LOE)

• Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define a schedule

• Provides status reports

• Defines and drives release management planning

R&D/Innovation

• Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies

• Keeps abreast of new developm