Equinix

Senior Principal Engineer, Product Software

Equinix

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Redwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $240,000 - $360,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to strategic customers, guiding them through network architecture decisions, design patterns, and technology adoption
  • Act as a technical evangelist—communicating our networking vision, platform capabilities, and roadmap to customers, partners, and industry stakeholders
  • Lead executive and architectural conversations to help customers modernize and optimize their networks using our portfolio and best practices
  • Work closely with engineering and product leadership to influence product direction, identify gaps, and drive enhancements aligned with real customer needs
  • Provide technical validation and architectural input for new features, integrations, and platform extensions
  • Translate customer pain points and field insights into actionable product requirements and long-term roadmap considerations
  • Evaluate and shape the evolution of our own network architecture as a provider, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence
  • Bring industry best practices into our internal design processes and guide architectural decisions across the organization
  • Advise the leadership team and teams on emerging market trends, competitive dynamics, customer priorities, and technology shifts
  • Provide thought leadership for strategic initiatives, long-term network strategy, and cross-company architectural alignment

Requirements

  • 10+ years of direct experience designing, deploying, and operating enterprise or service provider networks, ideally across diverse environments and architectures
  • Prior experience at a cloud provider, large-scale enterprise in a principal architect role
  • Experience with API-driven architectures, network automation frameworks, and modern DevOps practices
  • Recognized industry thought leadership
  • Deep expertise in networking and cloud technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to drive architectural strategy at scale
  • Proven track record collaborating with engineering and product teams to shape platform capabilities
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling messages.
Benefits
  • Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
  • Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
network architecturedesign patternstechnology adoptionAPI-driven architecturesnetwork automation frameworksDevOps practicesenterprise networksservice provider networkscloud technologiesarchitectural strategy
Soft skills
trusted advisortechnical evangelistcommunication skillsthought leadershipcollaborationinfluencingcustomer insightsstrategic initiativesproblem-solvingleadership