Staff Software Engineer, Equinix
AI/Agentic Systems
$186-280k
+ Bonus
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Digital infrastructure company
Open for applications
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$186-280k
+ Bonus
Office located in Redwood City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Production experience building LLM-powered agents — not just prototypes. Must have shipped agentic systems that use tool calling, multi-step orchestration, and human-in-the-loop patterns at scale
- Deep fluency with agentic frameworks and APIs: Claude/Bedrock APIs, Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, LangChain, n8n, or equivalent orchestration platforms
- Strong experience with event-driven architectures as the execution backbone for agent triggers: Apache Kafka, AWS EventBridge, or equivalent
- Solid understanding of platform-level security for agent systems: scoped IAM/RBAC, execution sandboxing, blast radius containment, and audit trail design
- Experience integrating AI tooling into CI/CD pipelines, developer portals (e.g., Backstage), and software delivery workflows
- Comfortable across the stack: Python or Go for backend agent services; familiarity with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate build vs. buy tradeoffs for AI infrastructure and make architecture decisions that balance velocity with long-term maintainability
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on platform engineering, developer tooling, or applied AI/ML systems
- Track record of leading technically ambiguous, high-impact projects — from architecture through to production adoption — in a large engineering organization
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts for both engineering and leadership audiences
- Experience as a technical anchor on cross-functional teams: comfortable influencing without authority, driving alignment across security, compliance, and product stakeholders
- Prior experience building internal developer platforms, golden-path tooling, or developer experience products is strongly preferred
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the design, build, and adoption of AI-powered agentic systems across our Developer Experience platform
- This is a highly technical, high-impact role at the intersection of platform engineering and applied AI — you will be responsible for the agentic execution framework that automates delivery, operations, and policy workflows for hundreds of engineers across the organization
- You will own the end-to-end architecture for how AI agents are built, governed, triggered, and observed on our platform — from the event-driven backbone and human-in-the-loop queues through to the agent registry and policy explainability surfaces
- You will also be the internal champion for agentic development practices, partnering with engineering teams to evangelize Claude Code and AI-assisted workflows across the organization
- Architect and build the event-driven execution framework that enables agent-assisted workflows across delivery, operations, and policy systems (e.g., PR automation agents, CI failure triage, onboarding agents)
- Design and implement human-in-the-loop approval queues, error handling, retry logic, and guardrail enforcement to ensure safe, auditable agent execution in a regulated enterprise environment
- Define the execution contract — how agents are invoked, what permissions they hold, how outcomes are recorded — across all platform integrations
- Lead the platform-native integration of Claude Code into scaffold templates, CI failure triage, PR assist workflows, and the developer portal's 'what should I work on?' agent
- Build and run an internal evangelism and adoption program for agentic development practices — demos, workshops, documentation, and a developer advocate community
- Partner with engineering teams to identify high-value automation opportunities and convert them into governed, reusable agent workflows
- Design and build a governed catalog of approved agents — metadata, capabilities, trust boundaries, versioning, and usage policies — ensuring agents are discoverable, auditable, and compliant
- Implement lifecycle management for agent versioning and permissions, including deployment pipeline integration, rollback, and decommissioning with full audit trails
- Define and enforce the security posture for agent execution: scoped permissions, least-privilege identity models, execution isolation, and immutable audit logging
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and platform governance teams to ensure all agent execution meets enterprise policy requirements
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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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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