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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. 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, and analyze business requirements to determine design feasibility within time and cost constraints. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of systems engineering, development/automation, and hardware/infrastructure management, bridging high-level application logic with low-level systems execution.
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 the team and collaborate with cross-functional teams to introduce and enhance product capabilities for customers
- Provide technical leadership for the team to evolve product features
- Collaborate to develop software for 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 processes and systems supporting the software development lifecycle (SDLC), values, and culture
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex, distributed system issues with minimal oversight
- Champion API design 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
- Participate in an on-call rotation 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
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services with clean APIs using gRPC or HTTP
- Understanding of networking and software-defined networking
- Deep analytical and problem-solving skills with a sense of curiosity
- Experience in a modern coding language like Go or Ruby/Ruby on Rails, willingness to become proficient in other languages
- 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
- Familiarity with operating at least one traditional SQL database; PostgreSQL is highly preferred
- Hardware management knowledge or 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
- Systems engineering
- Development/automation
- Hardware/infrastructure management
- Ruby on Rails
- Go
- gRPC
- HTTP
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Agile
- Scrum
- JIRA
- Peer Review
- Git
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
Location
- United States - Dallas Infomart Office
- United States - Tampa Office
- United States - New York City Office
- Canada - Toronto Office
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 - Tampa Office TAO : 118,000 - 176,000 USD / Annual
- United States - New York City Office NYO1 : 130,000 - 194,000 USD / Annual
- Canada - Toronto Office TRO : 88,000 - 132,000 CAD / Annual
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Insurance: health, life, disability and voluntary plans (US)
- Retirement plan contributions (US)
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays (US)
- Healthcare coverage, life, disability and optional benefit plans (Canada)
- Retirement or savings plans: Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and Tax-Free Savings Plan (TSFA) (Canada)
- Vacation and Personal Time, and Paid Holidays (Canada)
About the Company
- Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable innovations that enrich 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. Learn more here.