Staff Engineer, Product Software

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 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. 

 

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Staff Engineer, Product Software

Job Summary
Partner the engineering manager by contributing to technical designs and implementation of said designs with high-quality and secure code within the budgetary and timeline parameters.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis

• Reviews, analyzes, and gives feedback on requirements/functional designs

• Attends and engages in requirement definition meetings

Software/Application Architecture

• Participates and is responsible for the architectural review process

Software Design

• Design solutions for projects, enhancements, and cross-functional improvements

• Conducts design reviews and provides technical guidance to junior engineers

• Contributes to the estimation of level of effort (LOE) or SWAG for implementation of said designs

Development/Coding

• Develops and maintains high-quality code for projects, enhancements, and integrations

• Participates in and conducts peer code review and addresses defects

• Adheres to the established coding best practices

• Conducts code performance analysis, review, optimization, and refactoring

QA

• Partner the engineering manager to define and drive QA strategy

• Designs and develops unit and multi-functional tests, automated test scripts, implements test cases, logs issues, handles issues, recommends testing frameworks, records and runs automated test scripts

DevSecOps

• Responsible for the triage and debugging of L2/L3 incidents and provides fixes for defects

• Contributes towards the roadmap of quality, security, engineering, and operational excellence

• Defines and drives release management planning

• Validates quality and completeness of deployments

• Practices good change management

• Drives certification processes working with cross-domain teams

• Adopt SSDLC, automation of security, and remediates security findings in a timely fashion

Reporting

• Responsible for regular status reporting

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full stack expertise in cloud-based application development on a microservice architecture with in-depth knowledge of Java

• Experience coordinating cross cutting initiatives in a product organization and engaging with cross-functional Product Management and Engineering teams

• Possess hands-on experience with engaging Product Managers to crystalize requirements into technology solutions for delivery

• Hands-on experience with UI technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS

• Hands-on experience with frameworks and tools including Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, JPA, Junit, NodeJS, Express & SQL/PLSQL, Git

• Possesses hands-on experience and technical know-how on AWS/GCP and technologies like Ansible, Containers, K8, etc

• Sound understanding of Identity concepts such as SAML, JWT, OAuth, and also microservices based architectures, SOA, application integration & messaging, security best practices and Web 2.0

• Sound understanding of design patterns and standard methodologies in Java platform including UI, Application & Frameworks development

• Possesses experience with data modelling (RDBMS, XSD, JSON), Database/XML interaction, SQL, Stored Procedure, ORM, and hands-on experience with RDBMS databases like Postgres, Oracle and RDS

• Experience with Open-Source API Gateway Frameworks, Mulesoft/Apigee API Gateway is a huge plus

• Working experience with Swagger (Open API Spec),