Staff Engineer, Product Software
Role Overview
The Product Software team at Equinix builds next-generation software products and architecture for our Equinix software platform and services offerings.
We are looking for engineers responsible for developing consistent APIs with microservices, interacting with multiple consumers and abstracting complex Enterprise Application workflows.
Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop platform services, and to collaborate with partner teams to understand their requirements and consumption patterns.
Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.
You will work closely with product engineering, architects and product managers.
Key Skills for This Role
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Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership
- Contribute to the technical strategy and execution for modular, event-driven, and scalable microservices supporting enterprise workflows
- Design and implement reusable frameworks and self-service modules for service onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate software design, testing, and operations - e.g., AI-assisted code reviews, test generation, and root cause analysis
- Collaborate with senior architects and cross-functional teams on architecture decisions across customer, billing, pricing, and commerce domains
- Promote design practices that improve maintainability, observability, and operational excellence
- Engineering Excellence
- Lead by example—building secure, reliable, and observable systems that meet performance and scalability goals
- Implement and advocate best practices for API-first development, CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps
- Partner with product managers and peers to translate business intent into scalable technical solutions
- Contribute to automation and AI-driven monitoring that improves reliability and accelerates problem resolution
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in building robust services, preferably on a Java – based cloud development stack
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design and architectural patterns, and API design
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience working on cloud-based SaaS/PaaS products
- Experience working within the agile process and CI/CD frameworks
- Ability to transition between programming languages and tool sets
- Ability to effectively communicate new ideas and design tradeoffs
- Successful candidate will
- 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
- Exhibit a high level of curiosity, keeping abreast of the latest trends & technologies
- Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken
- 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.
- This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.
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