Senior Staff Engineer, Equinix
Product Software
$157-235k
Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Digital infrastructure company
Open for applications
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$157-235k
Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position
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
- If you're always looking for improvements and automation is your second nature, have experience in at least one programming language, and tools used in the DevOps practices excites you then you're our perfect candidate
- 5+ years of experience. 2+ year of hands on professional software development experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment, hands-on experience with Java is a plus
- Knowledge on Ansible – create, maintain and run Ansible playbooks (tasks, handlers, conditionals, loops and registers)
- You have experience in describing the infrastructure configuration as a code with Hashicorp Terraform with the usage of different providers
- You have knowledge of
- Common API concepts and standards as well as aspects of data storage, service status and session handling
- How to operate with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins experience is a plus
- Understanding of the components of a CI/CD pipeline
- Deployment best practices/strategies
- The Twelve-Factor app methodology
- Experience in building and running production systems utilizing microservices and distributed systems architecture at scale
- You have a background in workload based on cloud-based system with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- You have working experience with containers and orchestrators:
- You know how to build and operate Docker containers – architecture, construction and optimization
- You have experience with defining and manage applications that operate on orchestration platforms – Kubernetes, Rancher
- Experience with service-mesh architecture is a plus
What the job involves
- Repetitive activities are boring and have to be eliminated
- You will be part of a world-class product engineering team that’s paving the path for new ways for enterprises to consume ever increasing cloud services
- This team is responsible for building Equinix’s highly scalable, globally distributed and real-time data center infrastructure monitoring applications
- Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable
- Create mechanisms/architectures that enable rapid recovery, repair and cleanup of faulty migrations with good understanding of fault tolerance and failure domains
- Identify opportunities to deliver self-service capability for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks
- Improve the predictability and reliability of software releases with the implementation of automated build, test and deployment tools and processes
- Engage with Software Engineering in the design and development of software tools to reliably manage application delivery
- Engage with Production Engineering in the design, implementation and maintenance of the build/release infrastructure
- Write code, integrate systems and build configurations to drive and innovate around Public Cloud based platform across the organization
- Move fast, break things, and determine how to fix them, test everything
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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