Staff Engineer, Product Software

Staff Engineer, Product SoftwareStaff Engineer  Job Description Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed. At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.   We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. That is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.    Job Summary  The Product Software team at Equinix builds next-generation software products and architecture helping our customers to build dynamic connections to scale their business. If you like challenges in simplifying the user journey and provisioning connection services in minutes, prepare yourself for a feast of technological delights! We are looking for a Backend Engineer to develop consistent APIs with microservices, interact with multiple consumers, and abstract complex Enterprise Application workflows. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop customer-facing services and to collaborate with partner teams to deliver best services to our customers. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and product quality essentials. You will work closely with product engineering, architects, and product managers.  Responsibilities Solve for the customer - understand the WHY and enrich the specification to create a solution that delights customers Lead the estimation, design, and development of key system features Evaluate and recommend the adoption of open-source and new technologies using architecture decision records Create efficient, reusable, and reliable code Ensure cross-technical integration Participate in peer reviews and adoption of standard coding processes Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems Promptly resolve production issues based on priority - with a focus on unblocking the customer, and ensuring problems do not recur Mentor junior team members  Qualifications Proven strong experience in building robust services, preferably on a Java, Spring Boot–based cloud development stack Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design, and architectural patterns messaging and event-based systems, and REST API design Experience with multiple architecture styles including API-first, and micro-services architectures Experience in architecting and building large-scale systems using a scale-out architecture that requires high availability, performance, high scalability and multi-tenancy Experience working on cloud-based SaaS/PaaS products Experience using Kubernetes, Docker, API Gateways, and Service Mesh and related technologies Hands-on experience working within the agile process and CI/CD frameworks such as Jenkins Ability to effectively communicate new ideas and design tradeoffs  A successful candidate will Be a talent multiplier who gets the team around them to excel Be persistent, creative, and driven to get results relentlessly Exhibit a strong backbone to challenge the status quo when needed Exhibit a high level of curiosity, staying on top of the latest trends & technologies Show pride in ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken  Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.