Security Platform Architect & Tech Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Equinix, Inc. is seeking a deeply technical Area Tech Lead to own the end-to-end strategy for the Security Operating System, powering security services, automation, and data-driven decisions across the enterprise.

You will define long-term technical roadmaps, drive architectural alignment across engineering teams, and partner with leadership to deliver measurable outcomes. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong security and platform engineering expertise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on 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.
• Practical expertise with containers, orchestration, and infrastructure abstractions (Docker, Kubernetes, API gateways, service meshes).
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, C++, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core security platform services with reliable, well-instrumented interfaces.
• Translate requirements into architecture and code from PoC to production-ready services.
• Own the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for the Security OS area.

Skills

Security engineering

RESTful APIs

DevSecOps

Cloud security

Architectural leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Threat modeling

Programming (Python/Java/C++)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

API gateways

Service meshes

Job description

Equinix, Inc. is seeking a deeply technical Area Tech Lead to own the end-to-end strategy for the Security Operating System, powering security services, automation, and data-driven decisions across the enterprise.

You will define long-term technical roadmaps, drive architectural alignment across engineering teams, and partner with leadership to deliver measurable outcomes. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong security and platform engineering expertise.