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Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Translate developer and stakeholder feedback into requirements for API ecosystem tooling and automation.
- Design and implement API lifecycle governance, SDK and documentation generation workflows, plugins, platform extensions, and infrastructure-as-code components.
- Develop and maintain Go and Python validators, generators, CI helpers, release utilities, and supporting services.
- Integrate gateway, routing, identity, and authorization requirements into API tooling and reference implementations.
- Implement automated contract tests, golden tests, specification compliance checks, breaking-change detection, and compatibility checks.
- Define deployment, release, configuration-management, CI/CD, preview-environment, and artifact-publishing practices.
- Contribute to Kubernetes-based operations, infrastructure-as-code practices, reliability improvements, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and incident follow-up.
- Provide technical guidance to internal adopters, estimate work, identify dependencies and risks, and support coordinated multi-repository releases.
- Investigate API governance and automation technologies, including MCP-based tools and AI-assisted workflows with verification and governance.
- Mentor junior team members through code reviews and shared ownership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience building and operating production services and/or developer tooling with ownership of reliability and maintainability.
- Working knowledge of API specifications and authentication concepts such as OpenAPI and OAuth2/OIDC; MCP familiarity is a plus.
- Proficiency in Go and/or Python for maintainable tooling, automation, and services.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automation-first practices; Terraform Providers and Modules familiarity is a plus.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD and Git-based workflows in Linux environments; Kubernetes familiarity is a plus.
- Familiarity with gateway, edge, and routing patterns such as Apigee, ALB, Kubernetes Ingress, and Envoy.
- Preferred experience with Docusaurus, Backstage, or Confluence, including plugins, theming, and platform upgrades.
- Preferred experience integrating identity and authorization backends, including OAuth/OIDC integrations, token services, and RBAC/ABAC patterns.
- Preferred experience with SDK generation, release and versioning strategies, compatibility testing, or broader ecosystem stewardship.
- Demonstrated use of AI agents or skills in engineering workflows with emphasis on verification and safe operation.
Benefits
- Targeted base pay is CAD 88,000–132,000 annually for the Toronto office.
- Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.
- Employee Assistance Program is available to all employees.
- Canada benefits include healthcare, life and disability insurance, optional benefit plans, retirement and savings plans including DCPP, RRSP, and TFSA, vacation, personal time, and paid holidays.
- The employer provides an open and accessible employment process, including accommodations for qualified candidates with disabilities.
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.