Staff Product Software Engineer, Equinix
$130-212k
Salary dependent on location, Employees are eligible for bonus
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$130-212k
Salary dependent on location, Employees are eligible for bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- The right candidate will be a well-rounded engineer who has knowledge of systems engineering, development/automation, and hardware/infrastructure management
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field of education
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services with clean APIs using gRPC or HTTP
- Understanding of how networking works and how software defined networking works
- Deep analytical and problem-solving skills with a sense of curiosity
- Experience in a modern coding language like Go or Ruby/Ruby on Rails, willingness to become proficient in other languages as the needs arise
- Experience in creating fast feedback loops with CI/CD and testing automation
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and other container services
- Experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to document solutions and create architectural diagrams
- Ability to think strategically and execute with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basis
- Familiarity with operating at least one traditional SQL database; PostgreSQL is highly preferred
- Hardware management knowledge or at least notions of how servers get bootstrapped (automatically) in a data center
- Experience contributing to Open Source and interacting with Open Source communities is a plus
- Familiarity in leveraging AI-powered developer tools to accelerate development workflows
What the job involves
- This role sits within the Infrastructure Product Services organization, which is responsible for building, operating, and evolving the core platforms and services that power our infrastructure offerings. The team works at the intersection of product strategy and engineering execution, ensuring that foundational capabilities are reliable, scalable, and aligned with business needs
- We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems and APIs that power our platform and analyze business requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
- You will play a critical role in bridging high-level application logic with low-level systems execution, driving the evolution of our core APIs using Ruby on Rails and Go
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
- Translate complex business requirements into practical, performant, and maintainable system designs
- Work closely with our team and collaborate with cross functional teams to introduce and enhance our product capabilities for customers
- Provide technical leadership for the team of highly passionate engineers to evolve our products features
- Collaborate with others to develop software for our large-scale cloud services, driving simplicity, high-reliability, ease of maintenance and operation
- Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational standard methodologies
- Actively participate in continuous improvement of process and systems that support our software development lifecycle (SDLC), values and culture
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex, distributed system issues with minimal oversight
- Champion API designs first principles and governance standards across the stack, ensuring all REST and gRPC interfaces are secure, uniform, well-documented, and built with a developer-first experience in mind
- Participate in an on-call rotation for the product you are working on and own incident response for services, including triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis
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 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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