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.
The Equinix Product Software Architecture & Engineering group is looking for a smart, enthusiastic, and creative thought leader with a strong background in product innovation and software engineering. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in influencing product roadmaps and lead software engineering teams to extend a scalable & highly available distributed data processing platform to handle 500TB+ of data, 2.5 million+ stream of events across 60K+ industrial IoT devices.

QUALIFICATIONS

• MS or equivalent with proven years of relevant industry experience architecting, building and operating customer facing software systems
• Proven years of demonstrated ability to recruit and manage technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers
• Proven years of technical experience in full product/platform lifecycle in an agile environment. Proven years of experience building and managing agile teams.
• Pro years of hands-on technical leadership in crafting and building scalable / full stack software systems
• Hands-on programming experience in Java ecosystem
• Expertise in data modelling and event processing techniques. Experience with SQL and No-SQL technologies (Cassandra, Storm, MongoDB etc.)
• Experience with multiple architecture styles including SOA, API-first and micro-services architectures
• Demonstrated experience engaging with partners and executives
• Experience in architecting and building large scale systems using scale-out architecture that require high availability, performance, high scalability and multi-tenancy
• Real-world experience with continuous integration and delivery using public cloud such as AWS, Azure or GCP and container technologies such as Docker is required
• Hands-on experience with Agile-scrum methodology having played the scrum master role previously and Test-driven development.
• A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success

Software Engineering & Technical Leadership

• Be a technical manager with deep experience in distributed systems and software platforms
• Partner with technical product managers and other business facing functions to understand market needs; quickly translating them into demonstrable software
• Be a technical manager with rich hands-on experience
• Lead concept-2-deploy cycles to deliver high quality Product capabilities in a rapidly changing environment
• Provide best in class Global technical customer support
• Partner closely with Architects, Infrastructure & Operation teams to develop and deploy efficient solutions
• Be responsible for strategic direction working closely with Product and stakeholders
• Drive continuous improvements and efficiencies for software development, testing and support
• Foster an innovation-oriented culture to identify new opportunities and enable the next gen
• Communicate and engage effectively with executive leadership and partner groups

People & Team Management

• Help engineers develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
• Hire and mentor a diverse group of software engineers
• Build and foster high performance engineering team by performance reviews and evaluations, providing constructive feedback, conflict resolution and stakeholder management