Principal Engineer, Equinix
Product Software
$172-293k
Plus Bonus
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$172-293k
Plus Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
What the job involves
- Provides appropriate design solutions. Verifies stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of architecture. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide scalable and secure solutions
- Understands, reads, and reviews requirements
- Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements
- Interacts with product management teams to understand product requirements and define product roadmaps
- Participates in architectural review process
- Defines architecture, presents to the product management team, to ensure that the architecture is aligned with the product roadmap
- Provides technical leadership to team for design of multiple products
- Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source
- Evaluates third party and off the shelf solutions to influence build vs. buy decisions
- Participates in cross-technical technical integration and peer reviews
- Writes code based off of open source and third party packages
- Sets testing standards and recommends testing frameworks
- Articulates a vision of on-prem and cloud infrastructure and drives its realization
- Provides executive team with updates aligning with the vision, charter and roadmap
- Participates in customer meetings to understand the Cloud and DevOps vision
- Brings in industry tools automation expertise and aligns Equinix practices accordingly
- Develops innovative solutions, processes and best practices by leading internal technical teams
- Manages internal/external customer relationships and communication, working with all the Product Stakeholders
- Participates in customer calls to understand issues and provide solutions
- Defines and publishes the SLA metrics and the compliance reports
- Ensures and enables ITIL compliance
- Serves as a technical liaison for customer advisories, co-innovations, and single point of contact for incidents
- Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule on multiple projects
- Provides overall project status reporting
- Manages and influences cross-functional release cycle
- 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
- Has a significant impact on future products, technologies and business strategy
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.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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