Security Platform Architect & Tech Lead

Equinix; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 158,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix in Dallas seeks a deeply technical Area Tech Lead to own the end-to-end strategy and architecture for the Security Operating System, powering security services, automation, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

You will define the long‑term technical roadmap, align across multiple engineering teams, and partner with engineering and business leadership to deliver measurable outcomes while ensuring platform reliability and security at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, platform engineering, or secure software development.
• Strong grounding in IAM, application security, data protection, credential management, endpoint and cloud security.
• Deep experience delivering RESTful APIs and service-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core security platform services with reliable, well-instrumented interfaces used by Security Platform customers.
• Translate security and product requirements into architecture and code from PoC to production-ready services.
• Own the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for the Security OS area; break into milestones for domain leads.
• Serve as the technical go-to leader for architecture, platform design, and escalations; document rationale and paths.
• Partner with engineering managers, product leaders, and security executives to align technical direction with business outcomes.
• Provide technical oversight across the delivery lifecycle—architecture, quality standards, deployment practices, and operational readiness.
• Design automation-first workflows, integrating security services from diverse tools and data sources.
• Design and build integrations, plugins, and hooks across the security ecosystem (IAM, app sec, endpoints, cloud, data protection).
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven and open-source security tooling, where they add value.
• Define and evolve service APIs, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with platform capabilities.
• Ensure platform reliability by designing for SLA/SLO, observability, and fault tolerance.
• Proactively identify technical risks and bottlenecks, driving resolution before they impact delivery.

Skills

Security engineering

Platform engineering

Secure software development

RESTful APIs

Containers & orchestration

Python

Java

CI/CD

Cloud-native (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Security governance

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

API gateways

Service meshes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Equinix in Dallas seeks a deeply technical Area Tech Lead to own the end-to-end strategy and architecture for the Security Operating System, powering security services, automation, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

You will define the long‑term technical roadmap, align across multiple engineering teams, and partner with engineering and business leadership to deliver measurable outcomes while ensuring platform reliability and security at scale.