Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software

Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software
Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 250 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.
At Equinix, we help the world's digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people's lives. 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
Develops new software. Develops and directs software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.
Responsibilities

• Work in a globally distributed development team on Hybrid Multi-Cloud Networking
• Develop Terraform Plans, Ansible scripts to provision the infrastructure on Azure, AWS, GCP, etc. and make it open source to help community
• Automate and Test Terraform scripts using Golang, Terratest framework
• Develop and maintain API Test automation framework
• Design, build and coordinate an automated build & release CI/CD process using GHA.
• Cultivate Equinix's open-source presence and reputation in open-source organizations, standards bodies and more like Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Linux Foundation, etc. Interact with stakeholder(s) to understand and document the product feature(s)
• 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 level of effort (LOE) for product backlog. Work with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule
• Assist in the analysis & evaluation of new technologies to meet the demand for product roadmap and technology platform goals
• Help in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate technologies for product features and platform
• Advocate and follow best design and development practices adhering to Engineering standards
• 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 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Minimum 1+ years of expertise in Go, Terraform Providers, CLI, Ansible, Python,Pulumi
• Minimum 1+ years of experience in Developing Terraform scripts
• Minimum 1+ years of hands-on experience in testing Terraform scripts through Go Lang, Terratest, Terragrunt framework
• Preferred experience with setting up Kubernetes (Container Orchestration), Istio (service-mesh), Nginx on Bare-Metal servers using Python, Ansible, CLI, Terraform interfaces
• Hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery using a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and container technologies such as Docker, Rancher, etc
• Experience with database technologies (NoSQL, SQL and Timeseries Databases)
• Experience developing and maintaining an API Test automation framework
• Experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
• Strong programming foundation with knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Patterns
• Good to have knowledge on OpenAPI specs, SwaggerHub, SDK generation processes through OpenAPI Tools
• Good to have experience is API contract testing and Pact framework
• DevOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions (GHA)

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, sexual 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.
The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

• San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $111,000 to $185,000 per year
• California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $104,000 to $172,000 per year
• Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $94,000 to $156,000 per year

Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.
This position may be offered in other locations. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.
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