Job Summary:
Equinix is one of the fastest-growing data center companies, growing connectivity between clients worldwide. That’s why we're always looking for creative and forward-thinking people who can help us achieve our goal of global interconnection. With 200+ data centers in over 24 countries spanning across five continents, we are home to the Cloud, supporting over 1000 Cloud and IT services companies that are directly engaged in technological innovation and development.
As a Developer Experience Engineer focused on building Programmatic Client Interfaces for Equinix Digital Products. In this role, you will play a crucial part in enhancing the developer experience for Equinix Digital Products by creating robust, user-friendly tools that enable seamless integration and management of services. Your work will not only improve the efficiency of developers but also contribute to the overall success of Equinix's offerings in the digital infrastructure space.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- 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 2+ years of professional software development experience
- Minimum 2+ years of expertise in Go, Terraform Providers, CLI, Ansible, Python
- Minimum 1+ years of experience in Developing Terraform scripts
- Minimum 2+ years in OpenAPI specs, SwaggerHub, SDK generation processes through OpenAPI Tools
- Knowledge of SQL, Java, JSON and source control Git required.
- DevOps mindset to improve CICD using GitHub Actions.
- Real-world experience with continuous integration and delivery is required
- Hands-on experience with Agile-scrum methodology and Test-driven development
- A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success.
- Critical thinker, problem-solving skills, Team player
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
Additional Details
- Hybrid, 2 days a week in Redwood City office
- 12-month contract
- $55-$65/hr.
