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# Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

- **Company:** Equinix
- **Location:** Tampa, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $136,000.0 - $224,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Lisp (Programming Language), Unit Testing, Clojure, Computer Engineering, Identity and Access Management, Node.Js, OAuth, Software Product Management, Software Architecture, Role-Based Access Control, Information Technology, Golang
- **Published:** May 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=00df12be77b25b74

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Node.js?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, 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.

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
 * Nice to have - understanding Clojure or other LISP based language
 * 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, * 7+ years IAM experience
 * Java, Go, NodeJS
 * Excellent communication skills
 * Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

## Description

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing form.


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