Principal Engineer, Equinix
Product Software
$213-319k
+ Bonus
More information about location
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$213-319k
+ Bonus
More information about location
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
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering or equivalent
- 10+ years of engineering experience with strong depth in distributed systems, API platforms, and cloud-native development (Java, Golang, or equivalent)
- Proven experience in designing and operating microservice architecture at scale
- Deep understanding of data modeling, domain-driven design, and API lifecycle management
- Deep expertise in cloud technologies
- Knowledge of Container orchestration, Workflow orchestration, Networking
- Excellent communication skills; able to influence at multiple levels of the organization
- Operate as a “system thinker” – simplifying complexity across architecture and tools
- Be a talent multiplier who gets the team around them to excel
- Be persistent, creative and driven to get results relentlessly
- Exhibit a strong backbone to challenge the status quo, when needed
- Stay curious, experiment with emerging technologies, and continuously raise the engineering bar
- Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken
- Work effectively across time zones
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Principal Engineer for the Product Software team at Equinix to help build next-generation software products and architecture for our Equinix infrastructure software platform
- Your primary responsibility will be to architect, design and develop platform services, and to collaborate with partner teams to understand their requirements and usage patterns
- A commitment to collaborative problem solving, system design, and product quality is essential
- You will work closely with product engineering, architects and product managers
- Technical Leadership:
- Participate in the technical strategy for modular, event-driven, and scalable microservices that power enterprise-grade workflows
- Develop reusable frameworks and self-service platforms for onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management
- Champion design principles that balance innovation, maintainability, observability, and operational excellence
- Contribute directly to code while influencing long-term technical direction
- Continuously improve our software development lifecycle, tools, and processes
- Communicate and document clearly in a hybrid-first environment
- Build distributed, scalable, and highly available services with simple APIs
- Set and champion development and operational best practices
- Engineering Excellence:
- Lead by example—building reliable, secure, and observable systems with strong performance SLAs
- Establish best practices for API-first development, automated testing, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery
- Partner with product managers to translate business intent into technical outcomes that scale globally
- Mentorship and Influence:
- Serve as a mentor and technical coach, raising the level of engineering maturity across teams
- Cultivate an engineering culture grounded in curiosity, experimentation, and craftsmanship
- Advocate for pragmatic innovation—balancing long-term platform health with short-term delivery needs
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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