Senior Software Engineer, Equinix
CA$131-181k
Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$131-181k
Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience
- Bachelor's in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated ability to reason about trade-offs, simplify complex problems, and deliver maintainable solutions
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Comfortable giving and receiving direct, constructive feedback; works transparently and builds trust within the team
- Familiarity with Service Management concepts is desirable
- Desirable technical experience includes Node.js frameworks, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, React, Apollo Client, Tailwind CSS, Ant Design, Single-SPA or similar microfrontend approaches, and modern CI/CD processes
What the job involves
- Designs, builds, and maintains customer-facing services and user interfaces
- The role partners closely with product managers and other stakeholders to understand business needs, shape technical solutions, and deliver high-quality capabilities across the full stack
- Collaborates with Product Managers and stakeholders to clarify objectives, constraints, and desired outcomes
- Translates business needs into technical approaches, identifying risks, dependencies, and edge cases early
- Provides clear, actionable feedback that helps refine priorities and solution direction
- Leads design for major features, projects, and cross-system integrations
- Contributes to and reviews architectural decisions across backend, frontend, and shared services
- Drives consistency in patterns, data modeling, error handling, and observability across the codebase
- Designs, implements, and maintains backend services using server-side frameworks, strongly typed languages, and scalable data storage technologies
- Builds and enhances frontend applications using component-based frameworks, client-side tooling, and microfrontend or modular UI architectures
- Writes clean, maintainable, and well-tested code; actively participates in and leads peer code reviews
- Improves code quality by adopting effective patterns, modern tooling, and appropriate linting and formatting standards
- Develops unit, integration, and cross-functional tests; recommends and adopts new testing frameworks
- Works with associated infrastructure to ensure system reliability and performance
- Troubleshoots and resolves Level 2 and Level 3 production issues; upholds operational SLAs
- Performs performance analysis and optimizes services for scalability and resiliency
- Collaborates on CI/CD pipeline improvements, release workflows, and deployment automation
- Helps define infrastructure requirements for new services and features
- Participates in release planning and ensures completeness and quality of production deployments
- Provides accurate effort estimates and breaks down complex work into actionable tasks
- Supports cross-team initiatives involving shared services, UI composition, and backend integrations
- Presents recommendations that inform the team’s technical roadmap and long-term strategy
- Proactively investigates emerging frameworks, tools, and architectural patterns
- Conducts feasibility assessments and develops proofs-of-concept to validate new approaches
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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