Principal Engineer, Product Software - Remote Location - United States of America

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. 

Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.  We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

Job Summary
Provides appropriate design solutions. Verifies stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of architecture. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide scalable and secure solutions.

Responsibilities
Requirements Analysis

• Understands, reads, and reviews requirements

• Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements

• Interacts with product management teams to understand product requirements and define product roadmaps

Software Architecture

• Participates in architectural review process

• Defines architecture, presents to the product management team, to ensure that the architecture is aligned with the product roadmap

Software Design

• Provides technical leadership to team for design of multiple products

• Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source

• Evaluates third party and off the shelf solutions to influence build vs. buy decisions

Development/Coding

• Participates in cross-technical technical integration and peer reviews

• Writes code based off of …