Staff Engineer, Metal Platform Security

Staff Engineer, Metal Platform Security
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**

Equinix Metal, a leading bare metal cloud provider, is looking to grow our software engineering team If you are an experienced software engineer and looking to help build out services that will affect how the next generation of infrastructure and hardware is delivered to the world, join our team

This role can be remote or based in one of our office locations.

**Responsibilities**

You’ll also
- Live and breathe the developer experience with the platform we are responsible for caring and feeding for - our customers are Equinix Metal engineers, and they deserve the best
- Deal with ambiguity and drive to the heart of problems - when developing / managing an internal platform, sometimes you participate in the “what” just as much as the “how”
- Seek out weaknesses, identify (potential) security problems and risks, prototype solutions, approach every day with a self-starter attitude and a focus on resolving problems while not getting bogged down in a changing landscape
- Understand and evangelize a DevSecOps culture, and proactively contribute to our ecosystem of tools regardless of “who owns what”
- Be an active contributor to our internal systems/codebases as well as internal and relevant external open source projects
- Deeply care about technology, your craft and about the success of your teammates and the company. Have strong intrinsic motivators to help drive self-improvement
- Participate in on call rotation to support this product team's software in production

**Qualifications**
- Proven years of experience preferred in software engineering
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering is a nice to have, but not required
- Some experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux OS’ and CI/CD tools

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.