Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

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Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

Job Summary
Analyzes business requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Designs software systems.

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 review process

Software Design

• Leads Features and multiple modules design and participates in overall product design

• Provides technical leadership to the team

• Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source (pivot points to Software Architecture job family)

Development/Coding

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

• Cross-technical integration

• Participates in peer reviews

• Adoption of standard coding processes

Testing

• Develops unit tests

• Fixes defects

• Develops 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

Customer/Stakeholder Engagement

• N/A

Technical Project Management

• Provides level of effort (LOE)

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

• Provides status reports

• Defines and drives release management planning

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

Qualifications

• 7+ 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.