Staff Engineer, Equinix
Product Software
$139-209k
+ Eligible for bonus
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$139-209k
+ Eligible for bonus
Office located in Redwood City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex issues
- 5 + years experience with Go or a good programmer who's willing to master it, with a proven track record of developing and maintaining robust software applications and distributed/containerized micro-services
- Strong programming foundation with knowledge of data structures, networking, and transactions
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Experience building scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes is a plus
- Detail-oriented with a strong commitment to producing high-quality software
- Continuous learning mindset and willingness to stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends
- Experience in observability (Metric, Logs, Traces) – Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Splunk
- Experience with Go, Python, Rust or other programming languages
- Strong Experience with gRPC APIs
- DevOps bias to deploy, build confidence through CICD and observability, and learn from failure
- Degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent work experience will also be considered
What the job involves
- 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
- Understands, reads, and reviews requirements
- Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements
- Interacts with product management teams to understand product requirements
- Participates in architectural and design review process
- Multiple modules design and participate in overall product design
- Evaluate and recommend adoption of open source (pivot points to Software Architecture job family)
- Develop scripts and code for a feature and multiple modules and product
- Cross-technical integration
- Participates in peer reviews
- Adoption of standard coding processes
- Develop unit tests
- Fixes defects
- Develop test strategies
- Recommends testing frameworks
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies
- Keeps abreast of new developments to help define the necessary changes to practice
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 HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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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