Staff Software Engineer, Equinix
Platform Engineering & Site Reliability Engineering
Digital infrastructure company
Posted today
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in a Data Platform including Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or similar
- Experience in developing Data ingestion pipelines, Governance, Quality and automation
- Experience in cloud platforms such as Google Cloud / AWS / Azure
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Exposer to containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Knowledge of Software Engineering, Data Modelling and SDLC
- Understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Knowledge of incident management frameworks and root cause analysis techniques
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
Desirable
- Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Background in performance testing and load testing
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Platform Engineering & SRE Staff Engineer to join our team
- As a Platform Engineering SRE, you will play a critical role in developing, maintaining and improving the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems, ensuring seamless user experiences
- This position blends software engineering and systems engineering expertise to create automated solutions for operational challenges
- Ensure the high availability, reliability, and performance of production systems and services
- Implement and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures
- Monitor and manage system health using metrics, logs, and tracing to proactively identify and resolve issues
- Automate repetitive tasks, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and remediation of systems
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
- Participate in incident response and troubleshooting efforts to minimize downtime and resolve issues quickly
- Conduct root cause analysis for system failures and implement preventive measures to avoid future incidents
- Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions to prevent recurrence
- Maintain incident response playbooks and ensure efficient on-call rotations
- Design and implement monitoring solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar
- Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure smooth delivery of applications
- Act as a bridge between software engineering and operations, advocating for DevOps best practices
- Document system configurations, processes, and procedures to ensure knowledge sharing and maintain system integrity
- Conduct capacity planning and optimize system scalability to meet future demands
- Implement strategies for horizontal and vertical scaling of applications
- Ensure infrastructure security by implementing best practices and addressing vulnerabilities
- Collaborate with the security team to meet compliance standards and audits
- Develop and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines
- Automate data workflows for ETL/ELT processes, integrating data from various sources into data warehouses and other storage solutions
- Develop and maintain solutions for data transformation, data modelling, and automate the orchestration of data processing
- Implement and maintain modern data warehouse architectures, ensuring effective data storage, retrieval, and accessibility
- Work with cloud-based data warehouses (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift) and optimize data models for analytics and reporting
- Develop and manage dimensional models, star/snowflake schemas, and data marts for operational and analytical use cases
- Build and manage real-time and batch data pipelines for high-volume data ingestion, processing, and analytics
- Leverage technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Beam, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow for streaming and batch processing
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company values
- Seek something bigger - Come drive meaningful change as part of the world’s trusted, leading digital infrastructure company. Together, our work enables innovation that enriches our work, life and planet
- Challenge assumptions - Bring your unique perspectives and contributions to help us make bold decisions, become aware of biases and remove any barriers that still exist
- Want to unlock your potential - Achieve, learn, adapt and be comfortable building a fulfilling career. We are here to help you unlock your potential
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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