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About the Role

This role sits within the Infrastructure Product Services organization, responsible for building, operating, and evolving core platforms and services that power infrastructure offerings. The team works at the intersection of product strategy and engineering execution, ensuring foundational capabilities are reliable, scalable, and aligned with business needs. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems and APIs that power our platform and analyze business requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. The right candidate will be a well-rounded engineer with knowledge of systems engineering, development/automation, and hardware/infrastructure management. You will play a critical role in bridging high-level application logic with low-level systems execution, driving the evolution of our core APIs using Ruby on Rails and Go.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
Translate complex business requirements into practical, performant, and maintainable system designs
Work closely with our team and collaborate with cross functional teams to introduce and enhance product capabilities for customers
Provide technical leadership for the team of highly passionate engineers to evolve our products features
Collaborate with others to develop software for our large-scale cloud services, driving simplicity, high-reliability, ease of maintenance and operation
Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational standard methodologies
Actively participate in continuous improvement of process and systems that support our software development lifecycle (SDLC), values and culture
Troubleshoot and resolve complex, distributed system issues with minimal oversight
Champion API designs first principles and governance standards across the stack, ensuring all REST and gRPC interfaces are secure, uniform, well-documented, and built with a developer-first experience in mind
Participate in an on-call rotation for the product you are working on and own incident response for services, including triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field of education
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Experience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services with clean APIs using gRPC or HTTP
Understanding of how networking works and how software defined networking works
Deep analytical and problem-solving skills with a sense of curiosity
Experience in creating fast feedback loops with CI/CD and testing automation
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and other container services
Experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to document solutions and create architectural diagrams
Ability to think strategically and execute with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basis
Familiarity with operating at least one traditional SQL database; PostgreSQL is highly preferred
Hardware management knowledge or at least notions of how servers get bootstrapped (automatically) in a data center
Experience contributing to Open Source and interacting with Open Source communities is a plus
Familiarity in leveraging AI-powered developer tools to accelerate development workflows

Skills

Go
Ruby on Rails
gRPC
HTTP
Kubernetes
Docker
Scrum
JIRA
Git
CI/CD
SQL
PostgreSQL

Location

United States - Dallas Infomart Office
United States - Redwood City Office GHQ
United States - Tampa Office TAO
United States - New York City Office NYO1

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

United States - Dallas Infomart Office DAI : 118,000 - 176,000 USD / Annual
United States - Redwood City Office GHQ : 142,000 - 212,000 USD / Annual
United States - Tampa Office TAO : 118,000 - 176,000 USD / Annual
United States - New York City Office NYO1 : 130,000 - 194,000 USD / Annual

Benefits

Employee Assistance Program
Insurance: health, life, disability and voluntary plans
Retirement plan contributions
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid Holidays

About the Company

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.
A place where tech thinkers and future builders turn bold ideas into breakthrough experiences, we welcome your unique perspective.
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.

Equal Opportunity

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.
We use artificial intelligence in our hiring process.
This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy/ childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political/ organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law. (US Applicants) Please click here to see the “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster and supplement. Please click here to see our EEO Policy Statement. Please click here to see our Pay Transparency Policy Statement.
Equinix participates in E-Verify.
Accessibility and Accommodations: Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.