Staff API Engineer, Product Software

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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.

Staff API Engineer, Product Software

Job Summary

Partner the engineering manager by giving to technical designs and implementation of said designs with high-quality and secure code within the budgetary and timeline parameters.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis

• Reviews, analyzes, and gives feedback on requirements/functional designs
• Attends and engages in requirement definition meetings

Software/Application Architecture

• Participates and is responsible for the architectural review process

Software Design

• Design solutions for projects, enhancements, and multi-functional improvements
• Conducts design reviews and provides technical mentorship to junior engineers
• Gives to the estimation of level of effort (LOE) or SWAG for
• implementation of said designs

Development/Coding

• Develops and maintains high-quality code for projects, improvements, and integrations
• Participates in and conducts peer code review and addresses defects
• Adheres to the established coding standard processes
• Conducts code performance analysis, review, optimization, and refactoring

QA

• Partner the engineering manager to define and drive QA strategy
• Designs and develops unit and multi-functional tests, automated test scripts, implements test cases, logs issues, handles issues, recommends testing frameworks, records and runs automated test scripts

DevSecOps

• Responsible for the triage and debugging of L2/L3 incidents and provides fixes for defects
• Gives towards the roadmap of quality, security, engineering, and operational excellence
• Defines and drives release management planning
• Validates quality and completeness of deployments
• Practices good change management
• Drives certification processes working with cross-domain teams
• Adopt SSDLC, automation of security, and remediates security findings in a timely fashion

Reporting

• Responsible for regular status reporting

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full stack expertise in cloud-based application development on a microservice architecture with in-depth knowledge of Java
• Experience coordinating cross cutting initiatives in a product organization and engaging with multi-functional Product Management and Engineering teams
• Possess hands-on experience with engaging Product Managers to crystalize requirements into technology solutions for delivery
• Hands-on experience with frameworks and tools including Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, JPA, Junit & SQL/PLSQL, Git
• Possesses hands-on experience and technical know-how on AWS/GCP and technologies like Ansible, Containers, K8, etc
• Sound understanding of Identity concepts such as SAML, JWT, OAuth, and also microservices based architectures, SOA, application integration & messaging, security standard processes and Web 2.0
• Sound understanding of design patterns and standard methodologies in Java platform including UI, Application & Frameworks development
• Possesses experience with data modelling (RDBMS, XSD, JSON), Database/XML interaction, SQL, Stored Procedure, ORM, and hands-on experience with RDBMS databases like Postgres, Oracle and RDS
• Experience with Open-Source API Gateway Frameworks, Mulesoft/Apigee API Gateway is a huge plus
• Working experience with Swagger (Open API Spec), OAuth, REST, JSON
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and Container based deployments on Docker
• Possesses strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skill
• Give towards design documents, development specifications, and other development related documentation. Able to be responsible for creation of related documentation with leadership mentorship

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, 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.