Sr Staff Engineer at Equinix in Sunnyvale, California

Job Description:

Sr Staff Engineer

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: If you're always looking for improvements and automation is your second nature, have experience in at least one programming language, and tools used in the DevOps practices excites you then you're our perfect candidate. Repetitive activities are boring and have to be eliminated. You will be part of a world-class product engineering team that’s paving the path for new ways for enterprises to consume ever increasing cloud services. This team is responsible for building Equinix’s highly scalable, globally distributed and real-time data center infrastructure monitoring applications.

Responsibilities

Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable

• Create mechanisms/architectures that enable rapid recovery, repair and cleanup of faulty migrations with good understanding of fault tolerance and failure domains


• Identify opportunities to deliver self-service capability for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks


• Improve the predictability and reliability of software releases with the implementation of automated build, test and deployment tools and processes


• Engage with Software Engineering in the design and development of software tools to reliably manage application delivery


• Engage with Production Engineering in the design, implementation and maintenance of the build/release infrastructure


• Write code, integrate systems and build configurations to drive and innovate around Public Cloud based platform across the organization


• Move fast, break things, and determine how to fix them, test everything

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience. 2+ year of hands on professional software development experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment, hands-on experience with Java is a plus

Configuration Management and automation

• Knowledge on Ansible – create, maintain and run Ansible playbooks (tasks, handlers, conditionals, loops and registers)


• You have experience in describing the infrastructure configuration as a code with Hashicorp Terraform with the usage of different providers

Software Engineering

You have knowledge of:

• Common API concepts and standards as well as aspects of data storage, service status and session handling


• How to operate with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins experience is a plus


• Understanding of the components of a CI/CD pipeline


• Deployment best practices/strategies


• The Twelve-Factor app methodology

Architecture of the infrastructure

• Experience in building and running production systems utilizing microservices and distributed systems architecture at scale


• You have a background in workload based on cloud-based system with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Container and Machine Deployment

• You have working experience with containers and orchestrators:
  
  
  • You know how to build and operate Docker containers – architecture, construction and optimization
  
  
  • You have experience with defining and manage applications that operate on orchestration platforms – Kubernetes, Rancher
  
  
  • Experience with service-mesh architecture is a plus
  
  
  
  

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.