Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software

Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ 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**
The Product Software team at Equinix builds next-generation software products and architecture for our Equinix software platform and services offerings. We are looking for engineers responsible for developing consistent APIs with microservices. Your primary responsibility will be to develop the platform, and to collaborate with product owner and. Thus, a commitment to problem solving, good design, and product quality is essential. You will work closely with engineers, architects and product managers.

**Responsibilities**
- Understand the WHY and enrich the specification to create a solution which delights customers
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
- Ensure excellent code quality, and automation.
- Solve high severity production issues on priority

**Skills**:

- Proficient in Java or any other programming language with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
- Good understanding of object-oriented programming, design and architectural patterns, RESTful interfaces
- Ability to develop API Endpoints with security and best practices in mind
- Skill for writing clean, reusable code
- Knowledge of concurrency and design patterns
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle DB
- Implementing unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Familiarity with build tools such as Maven and Gradle
- Familiarity with continuous integration
- Thoughtful about UI/UX and skilled at communicating those thoughts in a positive, collaborative way
- A passion for collaboration, and a desire to learn, teach, and grow beyond the current edges of your skills

**Qualifications**
- Experience in building apps, preferably on Java stack
- Understanding of design patterns, algorithms and data structures
- Experience in Cloud technologies (i.e. AWS)
- Articulation of a solution and its benefits / shortcoming with alternatives
- Capability to learn something new everyday
- Ability to transition between programming languages and tool sets
- Ability to share your ideas

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.

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