Senior Principal Software Engineer

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 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. 

We share a real passion for putting the customer at the center of everything we do. Our dedication to innovation drives us to continually seek ways to leverage technology to better meet the evolving needs of our customers and benefit society in an increasingly digital world.

Job Summary

The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) organization at Equinix oversees the digital strategy, leveraging advanced software to improve customer experiences, operational efficiency, and business models. The Software Engineering team within this organization is developing enterprise technology stacks to support all Equinix products and services, with the goal of delivering best-in-class digital customer experiences for as-a-service consumption of private technology infrastructure. This team is leading several software transformation initiatives that are crucial for achieving the company’s business and operational objectives, including the implementation of the Equinix end-to-end system architecture, in collaboration with the Office of the CTO at Equinix.

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Principal Software Engineer to join the Software Engineering team under CDO. We are looking for someone with a passion for developing modern software stacks and capabilities that can deliver unparalleled digital customer experiences, leveraging both open technologies and vendor solutions.

In this senior role, you will provide software engineering expertise and technical leadership with responsibilities for customer-facing interfaces, including the end-to-end “quote-to-cash” value stream. You will collaborate with executives, product leaders, and other engineering teams to deliver advanced enterprise software capabilities. You will establish the technical direction for system design, implementation, integration, modernization, and continuous improvements across the entire value stream.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical leadership to evaluate and implement next-generation software capabilities for as-a-service consumption of Equinix products and services. Example capabilities include ordering, fulfillment, and billing. These implementations should optimally balance tradeoffs to meet business, product, and architectural requirements, including considerations of scale, reliability, performance, extensibility, unit costs, and vendor independence

• Collaborate with the Office of the OCTO on software architecture blueprints and roadmaps

• Identify technical debt and drive continual improvement by partnering with stakeholders

• Serve as a visible technical thought leader both internally and externally

Qualifications

• Preferably, a Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science or a related engineering field

• 10+ years of relevant technology innovation, architecture or engineering experience in software

• Strong understanding of modern software stacks, including cloud-native technologies and software ecosystems relevant to enterprise systems. Familiarity and experience with open-source and developer communities a plus

• Experience developing software products/capabilities used in large-scale deployments

• Excellent writing and verbal communications skills for engagements with stakeholders, from engineering to executive levels

• Outstanding collaboration and interpersonal skills

The United States targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

• San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $198,000 to $298,000 per year

• California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $191,000 to $287,000 per year

• Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $177,000 to $265,000 per year

Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.

This position may be offered in other locations. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.

As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. Details about our company benefits can be found at the following link:

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