Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

Equinix•Carrollton, TX

3d•$136,000 - $245,000

About The Position

This position entails working with various product teams across Equinix to help migrate their current authorization strategy to a new IAM platform. An ideal candidate would have 7+ years’ experience in the Identity Access Management field, excellent communication and coordination skills, and a background in common programming languages such as Java, NodeJS, and Go.

Requirements

7+ years IAM experience
Java, Go, NodeJS
Excellent communication skills
Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Nice To Haves

Nice to have – understanding Clojure or other LISP based language

Responsibilities

Software Architecture and Design
Understanding of IAM basics, such as OAUTH2, ABAC, RBAC, Federation, and how to integrate these concepts into actual code
Ability to use AI to analyze foreign code bases and gain an understanding of current authorization schemes
Collaborate with product teams on migrating existing legacy authorization systems to the new IAM stack while facilitating seamless customer migration
Doing “whatever it takes” to drive migration, including architecture, coding, guiding QA planning, and capturing requirements for new IAM platform for implementation by the core team building the new platform
Development/Coding Experience in Java, Go, NodeJS
Ability to create written documentation describing complex systems and interactions with existing components
Focus on quality, with an emphasis on building solid unit tests
Ability to quickly understand, absorb, and alter existing product codebases
Customer/Stakeholder Engagement
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for driving migration and providing documentation for our product teams
Product Manager mindset for analyzing existing use cases, translating them to implementation, and negotiating gap solutions
Ability to act as a consultant for internal and external stakeholders as they migrate to the new platform solutions, potentially updating external product code bases to incorporate new IAM solutions
Customer-focused with the ability to design systems and software increments which satisfy specific customer use cases