Staff Engineer, Product Software

Job Summary:

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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 and technologies
• Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken