Senior Principal Engineer, Equinix
Product Software
$200-360k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-360k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of direct experience designing, deploying, and operating enterprise or service provider networks, ideally across diverse environments and architectures
- Prior experience at a cloud provider, large-scale enterprise in a principal architect role
- Experience with API-driven architectures, network automation frameworks, and modern DevOps practices
- Recognized industry thought leadership
- Deep expertise in networking and cloud technologies
- Demonstrated ability to drive architectural strategy at scale
- Proven track record collaborating with engineering and product teams to shape platform capabilities
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling messages
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly seasoned Senior Principal Architect to serve as a strategic technical leader within our interconnections organization
- This is a highly visible, customer-facing role that combines deep technical expertise, industry thought leadership, and cross-functional influence
- You will guide customers in making the right network architecture choices, act as an evangelist for our solutions, and work closely with engineering to shape and evolve our product portfolio
- As a Network provider, we rely on this role to continuously evaluate and refine our own network design, drive architectural best practices, and provide market-backed insights to the SVP and executive team
- The ideal candidate has 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating real, large-scale customer networks across various verticals
- Serve as a trusted advisor to strategic customers, guiding them through network architecture decisions, design patterns, and technology adoption
- Act as a technical evangelist—communicating our networking vision, platform capabilities, and roadmap to customers, partners, and industry stakeholders
- Lead executive and architectural conversations to help customers modernize and optimize their networks using our portfolio and best practices
- Work closely with engineering and product leadership to influence product direction, identify gaps, and drive enhancements aligned with real customer needs
- Provide technical validation and architectural input for new features, integrations, and platform extensions
- Translate customer pain points and field insights into actionable product requirements and long-term roadmap considerations
- Evaluate and shape the evolution of our own network architecture as a provider, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence
- Bring industry best practices into our internal design processes and guide architectural decisions across the organization
- Conduct architectural reviews, assess new technologies, and champion standards and design principles across teams
- Advise the leadership team and teams on emerging market trends, competitive dynamics, customer priorities, and technology shifts
- Provide thought leadership for strategic initiatives, long-term network strategy, and cross-company architectural alignment
- Represent technical viewpoints in executive discussions and contribute to high-impact go-to-market initiatives
- What Success Looks Like
- Customers and sales view you as a trusted, strategic advisor who materially shapes their network strategy
- Engineering and product teams rely on your guidance to build the right capabilities at the right time
- Our own network architecture becomes more scalable, resilient, and differentiated through your influence
- The executive team gains sharper insight into market needs, competitive positioning, and long-term direction
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.
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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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