Staff Software Engineer, Product Software - Java and APIJob Summary: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 DescriptionIf you worked in SaaS application development and operations, have experience in at least one programming language, and tools used in the DevOps practices excite you then you are our perfect candidate. You will be part of a world-class product engineering team that is paving the path for new ways for enterprises to consume ever-increasing cloud services.ResponsibilitiesConfigure and operate the infrastructure of SaaS applications with focus on automation and infrastructure as code.Write code, integrate systems, and build configurations to drive and innovate around on-prem and public cloud-based platform across the organization.Engage with Product Engineering in design, implementation, and maintenance of the build/release infrastructure.Identify and troubleshoot any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment.Evaluate performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity, and establish the appropriate scalability plansEngage in incident resolution, build mitigation plans, and constantly improve observability of owned applicationsWork with Product Engineering development teams to grow their knowledge and abilities to be self-sufficient while working with infrastructureImprove overall developer experience by ensuring that tools and systems used by developers are easy to use, available and working in an efficient mannerTools we useJava, Python, Github Actions, JFrog, Nexus, SonarQube, Splunk, Honeycomb, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Casandra, Redis, Kafka, Marklogic, Oracle, Postgress, Kubernetes, Rancher, Istio, Terraform, AWS services, Rundeck, Temporal, LaunchDarkly, Amplitude, QualtricsQualifications expected6+ years of hands-on professional software development experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining customer facing applications at scale on-prem and/or in cloud environments.Software EngineeringYou have knowledge of:an Agile/Scrum SDLCevent-driven architecturesetting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelinestwelve-factor app methodologyInfrastructure configuration and managementYou have experience in running production systems utilizing microservices and distributed systems architecture at scaleYou have a background in workload based on cloud-based system with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)Containerization and orchestrationYou know how to build and operate Docker containers – design, construction, and optimizationYou have experience with defining and managing applications that operate on orchestration platformsYou have working experience with service mesh configurationObservability and monitoringYou have experience with configuration and monitoring of an observability tool of choiceAPI Gateway EngineeringYou understand common API concepts and standards as well as aspects of data storage, service status and session handlingYou are familiar with API management system for high availability, resilience, and recoveryYou know how to deploy, configure, tune, and monitor API GatewaysYou know how to apply API policies and standards for security and standardization of an enterpriseAdditional expectationsCuriosity and ability to learn new toolsWillingness to help others and openness to explain your way of thinking while solving issuesExcellent communication skills, both verbal and writtenExperience debugging complex problemsEnglish on a level that lets you work efficiently and discuss complex technical topicsProven record of driving changes in DevOps area and/or suggesting company-wide improvements to the existing tools and processes (nice to have)Experience in working with people from diverse cultures spread across the globe in different time zones (nice to have)The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $128,000 to $211,000***U.S. ONLY - EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability
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