Platform Engineer, Equinix
Enterprise Data & Analytics, GCP / Kafka
CA$88-132k
+ Bonus
More information about location
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$88-132k
+ Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, Software Engineering, or related roles
- Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale data or platform systems
- Strong programming skills in Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python. Both
- Experience building microservices and API architectures
- Hands-on experience with Kafka and/or Google Pub/Sub. Both
- Proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (AWS/Azure a plus). GCP
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Deep understanding of SRE and reliability engineering principles
- Knowledge of incident management and root cause analysis
- Experience with modern SDLC and DevOps practices
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
Desirable
- Experience with streaming and real-time data processing frameworks
- Exposure to data warehouse technologies (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.)
- Familiarity with API gateways (e.g., Apigee)
- Experience with GenAI tools and intelligent automation
- Knowledge of data governance and data quality practices
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments
What the job involves
- Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work
- We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and intelligent infrastructure for the Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform
- This role combines platform engineering, reliability engineering, and MDM platform integration to support data pipelines, APIs, microservices, and real-time event-driven systems
- The Platform Engineer works closely with Data Engineering, MDM teams, SRE, Production Support, and application teams to build resilient, cloud-native platforms that enable high-performance analytics, real-time integrations, and enterprise master data management
- This role emphasizes automation, reliability, API-first architecture, and GenAI-assisted engineering to continuously improve platform efficiency and operational excellence
- Platform Architecture & Engineering:
- Design and build scalable, cloud-native platform components supporting:
- Enterprise data pipelines
- MDM orchestration layers
- APIs and microservices
- Real-time streaming architectures
- Develop microservices and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and modern frameworks
- Build and maintain event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub
- Integrate platform services with MDM systems (e.g., Reltio) and enterprise applications
- Ensure platform scalability, resilience, and performance through modern engineering practices
- Reliability & Performance Engineering (SRE Practices):
- Ensure high availability and reliability of platform services and data systems
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability using logs, metrics, and tracing
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and reliability metrics
- Implement disaster recovery and fault-tolerant architectures
- Partner with SRE and Production Support teams to improve platform stability
- Automation & Infrastructure:
- Build infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Kubernetes
- Automate deployment, scaling, and remediation workflows
- Develop CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and safe releases
- Create reusable platform frameworks and templates to enable self-service engineering
- Optimize infrastructure cost and performance
- MDM & Integration Engineering:
- Design and maintain integration layers for MDM platforms (Reltio or equivalent)
- Build APIs and event pipelines for master data synchronization
- Ensure schema consistency and data integrity across systems
- Support real-time and batch integration patterns
- Data Engineering Enablement:
- Support development of real-time and batch data pipelines
- Optimize data workflows and processing frameworks
- Work with cloud data warehouses and storage systems
- Enable scalable ingestion and transformation architectures
- GenAI-Assisted Engineering:
- Use GenAI tools to accelerate development, automation, and troubleshooting
- Apply AI-assisted log analysis and anomaly detection
- Generate automation scripts, documentation, and test artifacts using AI tools
- Improve operational efficiency through intelligent automation
- Observability & Operations:
- Implement monitoring solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent
- Develop dashboards and alerting strategies
- Improve operational runbooks and documentation
- Support follow-the-sun operational collaboration
- Security & Compliance:
- Implement platform security best practices
- Enforce access controls and compliance standards
- Collaborate with security teams on audits and governance requirements
- Collaboration & Engineering Leadership:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver platform capabilities
- Advocate DevOps and platform engineering best practices
- Mentor engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing
- Influence platform design for reliability and operability
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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