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Base Salary
$155k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, reliable, well-instrumented security platform services and production-ready APIs.
- Translate security and product requirements into architecture and code from proof of concept through hardened deployment.
- Own the Security Operating System’s technical strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap.
- Lead cross-team architectural alignment, technical decision-making, governance, escalations, and implementation planning.
- Partner with engineering managers, product leaders, security executives, and business leaders to align technical direction with outcomes.
- Provide technical oversight for architecture, quality, deployment practices, operational readiness, SLA/SLO compliance, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Design automation-first workflows and integrations, plugins, and hooks across IAM, application security, endpoints, cloud, and data protection systems.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-driven and open-source security tooling, and proactively resolve technical risks and bottlenecks.
Requirements
- 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 security, and cloud security.
- Deep experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs and service-based architectures.
- Practical expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, API gateways, and service meshes.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, C++, or similar languages; polyglot experience is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions and modern DevSecOps practices.
- Cloud-native delivery experience on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Awareness of threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and risk analysis.
- Experience driving technical alignment across multiple engineering teams or organizations, including executive-level communication and architectural governance.
- Familiarity with security data analysis, machine learning, or AI-enhanced security workflows is a bonus.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for employees and eligible family members.
- Retirement plan contributions by the employee and Equinix.
- Accrued paid time off and paid holidays, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Full-time position based at the United States—Dallas Infomart Office; the posting does not state a remote or hybrid arrangement.
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About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.