Staff Engineer, Java - Product Software

Job description
Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

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 Summary

You'll become part of a world-class engineering team that’s building a new digital twin platform for managing the data centers business. This product will be used for capacity and inventory management and thanks to advanced process automation and 3D visualization, is going to help the company to grow even further. And we are looking for a Staff Software Engineer candidate.

If challenges in distributed architecture, microservices, cloud, APIs, containers and automation excites you, you will be in for a technology buffet treat!

Responsibilities
• Solve for the customer - understand the WHY and enrich the specification to create a solution that delights customers
• Take part in the estimation, design, and development of key system features
• Evaluate and recommend the adoption of open-source and new technologies
• Create efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure cross-technical integration
• Participate in peer reviews and adoption of standard coding processes
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Promptly resolve production issues based on priority - with a focus on unblocking the customer, and ensuring problems do not recur
• Mentor junior team members

Qualifications
• Proven strong experience in building robust services, preferably on a Java, Spring Boot–based cloud development stack
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design, and architectural patterns messaging and event-based systems, and REST API design
• Experience with multiple architecture styles including SOA, API-first, and micro-services architectures
• Experience in architecting and building large-scale systems using a scale-out architecture that requires high availability, performance, high scalability and multi-tenancy
• Experience working on cloud-based SaaS/PaaS products
• Understanding of web frontends and an understanding of HTML DOM, CSS, and event scripting
• Experience using Kubernetes, Docker, API Gateways, Service Mesh and related technologies
• Hands-on experience working within the agile process and CI/CD frameworks such as GitHub Actions
• Ability to transition between programming languages and toolsets
• Ability to effectively communicate new ideas and design tradeoffs
• Must: Java, Spring-boot, PostgreSql/Aurora, JOOQ/JPA/Hibernate, 6+ years experience
• Nice-to-haves: – Experience with GraphQL also including NodeJS version - Apollo, Prisma, spatial databases

A successful candidate will
• Be a talent multiplier who gets the team around them to excel
• Be persistent, creative, and driven to get results relentlessly
• Exhibit a strong backbone to challenge the status quo when needed
• Exhibit a high level of curiosity, staying on top of the latest trends & technologies
• Show pride in ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, ****** orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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