Principal Engineer, Product Software
- Posted 15 March 2023
- LocationSingapore
- Job type Permanent
- ReferenceJR-133347
Company's Benefits
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Paid Parental Leave
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Return to Work Policy
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Childcare Facilities
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Flexible Working Arrangements
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Mentorship Program
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Breastfeeding Rooms
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Sponsorship Program
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Leadership Development Program
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Coaching Program
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Raise Numbers Of Women In Leadership
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Internal Women's Networking Group
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Equal Pay Initiatives
Job Description
Principal Engineer, Product Software
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 245+ 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
If you're always looking for improvements and automation is your second nature, have hands-on (current) experience in at least one programming language, and tools used in the DevOps practices excites you then you're our perfect candidate. Repetitive activities are boring and have to be eliminated. You will be part of a world-class product engineering team that’s paving the path for new ways for enterprises to consume ever increasing cloud services. This team is responsible for building Equinix’s highly scalable, globally distributed and real-time data center infrastructure monitoring applications.
Responsibilities
Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable
Create mechanisms/architectures that enable rapid recovery, repair and cleanup of faulty migrations with good understanding of fault tolerance and failure domains
Identify opportunities to deliver self-service capability for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks
Improve the predictability and reliability of software releases with the implementation of automated build, test and deployment tools and processes
Engage with Software Engineering in the design and development of software tools to reliably manage application delivery
Engage with Production Engineering in the design, implementation and maintenance of the build/release infrastructure
Write code, integrate systems and build configurations to drive and innovate around Public Cloud based platform across the organization
Move fast, break things, and determine how to fix them, test everything
Collaborate with the engineering team distributed in 3-4 geo-locations
Qualifications
7+ years of experience. 3+ year of hands on professional software development experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment, hands-on experience with Java is a plus
Configuration Management and automation
Strong Knowledge on Ansible – create, maintain and run Ansible playbooks (tasks, handlers, conditionals, loops and registers)
You have hands-on experience in describing the infrastructure configuration as a code with Hashicorp Terraform with the usage of different providers
Software Engineering
You have knowledge of:
Common API concepts and standards as well as aspects of data storage, service status and session handling
How to operate with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, GHA, Argo Workflow etc. experience is a plus
Understanding of the components of a CI/CD pipeline
Deployment best practices/strategies
The Twelve-Factor app methodology
Strong knowledge on infrastructure and application health monitoring, alerting, self-healing, disaster recovery/backups
Hands-on experience on infrastructure capacity planning and service recommendation based on business needs
Architecture of the infrastructure:
Experience in building and running production systems utilizing microservices and distributed systems architecture at scale
You have a background in workload based on cloud-based system with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Container and Machine Deployment:
You have working experience with containers and orchestrators:
You know how to build and operate Kubernetes and docker containers – architecture, construction, optimization and cluster management
You have experience with defining and manage applications that operate on orchestration platforms – Kubernetes Origin, Rancher, Openshift, Tanju etc
Experience with service-mesh architecture is a plus
Desired Skills:
VMWare, Kunernetes, Git, Ansible, Terraform, Python, Linux, Jenkins, RDS, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, AWS