Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software at Equinix in Sunnyvale, California

Job Description:

Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software

Equinix is one of the fastest growing data center companies, growing connectivity between clients worldwide. That’s why we're always looking for creative and forward thinking people who can help us achieve our goal of global interconnection. With 200 data centers in over 24 countries spanning across 5 continents, we are home to the Cloud, supporting over 1000 Cloud and IT services companies that are directly engaged in technological innovation and development. We are passionate about further evolving the specific areas of software development, software and network architecture, network operations and complex cloud and application solutions. 

At Equinix, we make the internet work faster, better, and more reliably. We hire talented people who thrive on solving hard problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, try new approaches, and grow in new directions. Our culture is at the heart of our success and it’s our authentic, humble, gritty people who create The Magic of Equinix. We share a real passion for winning and put the customer at the center of everything we do. 

Job Summary: Works with product teams, analysts and other engineers to design systems and application software, and mentor junior members of the team.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis

• Understands, reads, and reviews requirements




• Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements

Software Architecture

• Participates in architectural review process

Software Design

• Leads Features and multiple modules design




• Provides technical leadership to the team




• Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source

Development/Coding

• Develops scripts and code for a feature and multiple modules




• Cross-technical integration




• Participates in peer reviews




• Adoption of standard coding processes

Testing

• Develops unit tests




• Fixes defects




• Develops test strategies




• Recommends testing frameworks

DevOps

• Defines deployment and release guidelines




• Defines and executes environment planning and cross-functional dependencies




• Documents software configuration management practices and educates cross-functional stakeholders on the processes and tools

Software Reliability & Support Engineering

• Captures, Consolidates, and maintains inventory of production applications, flows and systems for all the software engineering verticals




• Helps in preparing application support documentation




• Troubleshoots basic application issues with the help of knowledgebase documents

Customer/Stakeholder Engagement

• N/A

Technical Project Management

• Provides level of effort (LOE)




• Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule




• Provides status reports and release management progress updates

R&D/Innovation

• Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience




• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering




•  6+ years or MS in computer science with 4+ years' experience or Ph.D. in computer science with 2+ years of hands-on professional software development experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer-facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment desired.

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.