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Base Salary
$230k - $414k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own the multi-year technical vision and reference architecture for Equinix AI infrastructure products.
- Design, build, launch, and operate distributed infrastructure, inference products, services, and customer-facing APIs at global scale.
- Write production-quality Go code and establish standards for architecture, testing, code quality, and design reviews.
- Incubate zero-to-one products from concept and prototypes through production launch in partnership with Product Management.
- Architect scalable, reliable platforms using platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, automation, infrastructure as code, observability, SLOs, and incident response.
- Integrate AI infrastructure with Equinix Fabric, Network Edge, and other interconnection products for low-latency, resilient connectivity.
- Identify and resolve systemic reliability, performance, and cost issues across the platform.
- Influence executive leadership, technical direction, product roadmaps, strategic customers, partners, standards bodies, and industry forums.
- Lead architecture reviews and author technical design documents and decision records.
- Mentor and develop Senior Principal and Principal Engineers and help establish the organization’s technical culture and talent bar.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating distributed systems and services at scale.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including containers, operators, Helm, or service mesh.
- Proficiency in Go; experience with Python or other systems languages is preferred.
- Deep experience designing APIs and service-oriented or microservices architectures.
- Strong background in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and reliability engineering.
- Experience with AI/ML inference, such as model-serving frameworks, GPU scheduling, and performance tuning, or a demonstrated interest in developing deep expertise in the area.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, BGP, load balancing, overlays, and multisite, hybrid, and multi-cloud networking.
- Track record of taking new products or platforms from zero to one and through launch.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority and operate effectively in ambiguous environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications include GPU infrastructure and accelerated computing experience, interconnection or network-as-a-service platform experience, infrastructure or cloud-provider experience, and open-source contributions, conference talks, or published technical writing.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program.
- US employees may enroll in health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans.
- US employees receive retirement plan participation, accrued paid time off, and paid holidays.
- Canada employees may enroll in healthcare, life, disability, and optional benefit plans.
- Canada employees may enroll in DCPP, RRSP, and TFSA retirement or savings plans and receive vacation, personal time, and paid holidays.
- Benefits are subject to eligibility, plan terms, and change at Equinix’s discretion.
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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.