2 months ago
Base Salary
$155k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive architecture for a cloud-native workflow orchestration platform supporting data center operations.
- Design scalable, resilient, highly available distributed systems and establish platform architecture patterns, technical standards, and engineering practices.
- Build enterprise-grade services and event-driven architectures using Java, Spring Boot, React, AWS, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
- Develop workflow capabilities for coordinating operational activities, tracking progress, optimizing resources, and improving real-time visibility.
- Own technical delivery from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Apply distributed-systems patterns for consistency, fault tolerance, retries, recovery, and event-driven processing.
- Improve reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability engineering practices.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead design and code reviews, author architecture decision records, and lead architecture review forums.
- Influence platform roadmaps and align architecture with product, infrastructure, operations, and customer-delivery needs.
Requirements
- 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 AWS, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, or EKS.
- Experience influencing technical direction across engineering teams, platform domains, or cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and improving engineering practices.
- Experience with large-scale technical transformation programs, legacy migration, platform modernization, or adoption of architectural standards.
- Preferred experience with Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, Argo Workflows, AWS Step Functions, or similar workflow technologies.
- Preferred experience with Kafka or comparable event-streaming platforms and PostgreSQL or comparable relational databases.
- Preferred experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, SRE practices, SLOs, SLIs, and reliability engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for eligible employees and 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 in Dallas, United States, with the listed annual base-pay range of $155,000-$233,000.
- Bonus eligibility and potential equity depending on the position.
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About Equinix
Equinix is a public digital infrastructure company that operates a global platform of colocation and interconnection data centers for enterprises, cloud and network providers. It sells space, power, and connectivity, plus services such as Equinix Fabric, Network Edge, and Equinix Metal for hybrid multicloud and edge deployments. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it is listed on NASDAQ (EQIX) and runs hundreds of IBX facilities across major metros worldwide.