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Job SummaryEquinix Software Architecture & Engineering team is on a mission to help build Equinix's next-generation interconnection and SDN platform - Equinix internet Exchange. We are looking for excellent software engineers with a product-building mindset to join this team to build a next-generation SDN-based platform.
Responsibilities - As a key member of the Equinix Product Engineering function, you will be involved in the software development life cycle and focus on delivering solutions for Interconnection product systems
- Work in a globally distributed development team environment with minimal supervision
- Hands-on Architecture, Design, Development, Automation Testing & Support of Software Products and Solutions
- Interact with stakeholder(s) to understand and document the product feature(s)
- Provides the level of effort (LOE) for the product backlog. Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define detailed user stories and prepare a schedule
- Integrate software product(s) with other systems, test interfaces, and manage version control
- Assist in the analysis & evaluation of new technologies to meet the demand for the product roadmap and technology platform goals
- Help in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and the platform
- Advocate and follow best design and development practices, adhering to Engineering standards
- Participate in the Design & Peer Code Review process
- Provides status reports to management & team leads and helps with release management planning
- Breaking down the big features and user stories into granular components and development tasks considering different geo-locations
- Prioritizing and parallelizing the tasks in hand and dealing with ad-hoc requests
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of professional software development experience
- Professional Experience: architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer-facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment
- Strong programming foundation with knowledge in Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Patterns
- Minimum 3+ years of backend expertise in application design & development with Java technologies, with knowledge of Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Message Queues & Workflow Engines with layered-microservices architecture
- Minimum of 2+ years of expertise in writing Test Automation scripts using Karate & Cypress
- Use a DevSecOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions and review DORA metrics to improve processes and consistently write fully secure code
- Knowledge on NexusIQ, SonarQube, Sonar Linting, DAST scans, DDoS attacks, Defensive Coding & Penetration Testing concepts
- Experience with database & caching technologies (Postgres, Oracle, Redis, and Timeseries Databases)
- •Experience in architecting and building large-scale systems using a scale-out architecture that requires high availability, performance, high scalability, and multi-tenancy
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