Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

Who are we?

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers-because progress starts with fresh ideas. You'll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you-because when you feel valued, you're empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary
Partner the engineering manager by giving to technical designs and implementation of said designs with high-quality and secure code within the budgetary and timeline parameters.

Responsibilities

• Architect, Design, Build & Operate the customer APIs working in collaboration with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering & IT teams
• Provide technology architecture, design & governance services around APIs
• Provide hands-on technical leadership around Equinix APIs.
• Build and maintain API technical documentation.
• Responsible for defining and maintaining cloud architecture for APIs (design/operation/security architecture)
• Developing and maintaining comprehensive knowledge of products, industry and technical trends, product software architecture & design, and general business/financial acumen.
• Clearly articulate and communicate tactical and strategic messages to all business and technical groups
• Provide thought leadership and lead innovation by exploring, investigating, recommending, benchmarking and implementing tools and frameworks.
• Work in a Globally Distributed Development team environment to enable successful delivery with a minimal supervision
• Advocate, document, and follow best design and development practices

• You are passionate, creative and self-driven
• You are curious and collaborative, and a believer in the power of teams and team work
• You are flexible and have a broad set of capabilities to wear multiple hats
• You thrive in a dynamic and a fast paced environment
• You pursue speed and simplicity relentlessly
• You are a natural leader in everything you do

• Bachelor or Master degree or equivalent with 8+ years in the field of Software Engineering and Development
• An obsession with customer experience, product fidelity, developer documentation, API ecosystem and exceptional developer experience
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in building Platforms, Frameworks & API's using Open Source Java & JavaScript Frameworks (Spring Boot, Play, Akka, Netty.IO, Node.js etc.)
• Strong working experience in micro services API first development, API gateway & API Orchestration
• Must have Hands-on Experience in AWS/GCP and technologies like Ansible, Containers, Kubernetes etc
• AWS Certified Solution Architect (Professional) - highly preferred
• Good understanding of Identity concepts - SAML, JWT, Oauth etc.
• 5+ years of experience working directly with customers & stakeholders providing business & technology solutions
• Working experience with Swagger (Open API Spec), OAuth, REST, JSON etc.,
• Excellent understanding of Micro services based architectures, Service oriented design & architecture, Application Integration & Messaging, Security and Web 2.0
• Strong understanding of design patterns and best practices in Java platform including UI, Application & Frameworks development
• Strong Experience/Knowledge on Data modeling (RDBMS, XSD, JSON), Database/XML interaction, SQL, Stored Procedure and ORM.
• Must have prior experience in leading Technical deliverables. Must be able to effectively communicate & work with fellow team members and other functional team members to coordinate & meet deliverables.
• Exceptional communication, organization and presentation skills
• Experience working with Open Source API Gateway Frameworks, Mulesoft/Apigee API Gateway is a huge plus
• Good understanding of CI/CD systems and Container based deployments on Docker
• Experience working with in Agile or Scaled Agiled Framework is required