Senior Staff Engineer | Platform & Systems Architect

Equinix, Inc.; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

PTO and holidays

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Equinix, Inc. designs scalable software systems and provides technical leadership for complex engineering initiatives from Redwood City, CA. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and drive end-to-end solutions across product, operations, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes Java, microservices, APIs, databases, NFV, virtual networking, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with Java, microservices, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience with NFV, virtual networking, BGP, orchestration, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience leading technical designs and guiding engineers through complex implementations.
• Strong problem-solving, technical decision-making, collaboration, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Leads architecture and design for complex features and services.
• Provides technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
• Drives technical discussions and helps teams make sound design decisions.
• Evaluates technical trade-offs across scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Mentors engineers and promotes engineering best practices.
• Collaborates across teams to drive end-to-end solutions.
• Designs and develops solutions using Java, microservices, APIs, and databases.
• Drives integration across multiple services and platforms.
• Leads design and code reviews and promotes software quality.
• Designs orchestration and automation workflows.
• Troubleshoots complex issues across application, infrastructure, and networking layers.

Skills

Java

Microservices

APIs

Databases

Distributed systems

NFV

Virtual networking

BGP

Orchestration

Cloud-native platforms

Kubernetes

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

Equinix, Inc. designs scalable software systems and provides technical leadership for complex engineering initiatives from Redwood City, CA. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and drive end-to-end solutions across product, operations, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes Java, microservices, APIs, databases, NFV, virtual networking, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on reliability and performance.