Principal AI Infrastructure Architect

Equinix; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 230,000 - 344,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Equinix is building a new generation of AI infrastructure products. As a Distinguished Engineer on the AI Infrastructure Products team, you will design, build, and launch platforms and services that let customers run AI inference close to their data, clouds, and partners across Equinix's global footprint.

This is a hands-on builder role; incubate new products from zero to one, then harden them into reliable platforms that scale globally.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems.
• Proficiency in Go; Python or similar is a plus.
• Deep experience designing APIs and microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year technical vision and reference architecture for AI infrastructure.
• Architect and run platforms and services that scale across Equinix's global data center footprint.
• Mentor engineers and shape the technical talent bar for the organization.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Go

API design

DevOps / SRE

AI/ML inference

Networking fundamentals

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Job description

Equinix is building a new generation of AI infrastructure products. As a Distinguished Engineer on the AI Infrastructure Products team, you will design, build, and launch platforms and services that let customers run AI inference close to their data, clouds, and partners across Equinix's global footprint.

This is a hands-on builder role; incubate new products from zero to one, then harden them into reliable platforms that scale globally.