Principal Architect, Cloud-Native Workflow Orchestration

Equinix; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

PTO & holidays

Retirement plan

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Principal Software Architect, Workflow Orchestration Platform to define, design, build, and scale a mission‑critical platform coordinating operational workflows that keep data centers delivering outcomes on time and at peak efficiency.

You will shape distributed, cloud‑native systems, guide technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, operations, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable platform

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and operating enterprise‑grade software systems.
• Significant experience defining architecture for distributed, cloud‑native platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and modern frontend frameworks such as React.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, observable, resilient, and scalable production systems.
• Experience with cloud‑native engineering practices, including AWS, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, or EKS.
• Experience influencing technical direction across engineering teams, complex platform domains, or cross‑functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and improving engineering practices.
• Experience leading or contributing to large‑scale technical transformation programs, including legacy system migration, platform modernization, or organizational adoption of new architectural standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture for a cloud‑native workflow orchestration platform supporting data center operational execution.
• Design scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems that support complex operational workflows across data centers.
• Establish architectural patterns, technical standards, design principles, and engineering practices for the platform.
• Lead technical decision‑making across architecture, scalability, resiliency, observability, performance, and maintainability.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend pragmatic solutions that balance speed, reliability, complexity, and long‑term platform sustainability.
• Drive cost‑aware architecture decisions, balancing performance, scalability, and cloud infrastructure costs across compute, storage, and data transfer.
• Build and evolve enterprise‑grade services using Java, Spring Boot, React, AWS, Kubernetes, and EKS.
• Design and implement event‑driven architectures using Kafka or comparable event‑streaming technologies.
• Develop platform capabilities that coordinate workflows, track operational progress, optimize resource utilization, and improve real‑time visibility.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery from technical discovery and design through implementation, deployment, support, and continuous improvement.
• Build or integrate workflow orchestration capabilities using tools such as Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, Argo Workflows, AWS Step Functions, or comparable workflow technologies.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture

Mentoring

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

React

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

Kafka

Temporal

PostgreSQL

Job description

Equinix is seeking a Principal Software Architect, Workflow Orchestration Platform to define, design, build, and scale a mission‑critical platform coordinating operational workflows that keep data centers delivering outcomes on time and at peak efficiency.

You will shape distributed, cloud‑native systems, guide technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, operations, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable platform