Staff Engineer, Product Software

Equinix

Software Engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable systems and APIs at Equinix in a hybrid role across multiple locations in the U.S.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeDallas • California, Florida, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $118,000 - $176,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGRPCKubernetesOpen SourcePostgresRubyRuby on RailsSDLCSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
Translate complex business requirements into practical, performant, and maintainable system designs
Work closely with our team and collaborate with cross functional teams to introduce and enhance our product capabilities for customers
Provide technical leadership for the team of highly passionate engineers to evolve our products features
Collaborate with others to develop software for our large-scale cloud services, driving simplicity, high-reliability, ease of maintenance and operation
Lead by example through direct contribution, and provide direction in establishing development and operational standard methodologies
Actively participate in continuous improvement of process and systems that support our software development lifecycle (SDLC), values and culture
Troubleshoot and resolve complex, distributed system issues with minimal oversight
Champion API designs first principles and governance standards across the stack, ensuring all REST and gRPC interfaces are secure, uniform, well-documented, and built with a developer-first experience in mind.
Participate in an on-call rotation for the product you are working on and own incident response for services, including triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field of education
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Experience developing distributed, scalable, and highly available services with clean APIs using gRPC or HTTP
Understanding of how networking works and how software defined networking works
Deep analytical and problem-solving skills with a sense of curiosity
Experience in a modern coding language like Go or Ruby/Ruby on Rails, willingness to become proficient in other languages as the needs arise
Experience in creating fast feedback loops with CI/CD and testing automation
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and other container services
Experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to document solutions and create architectural diagrams
Ability to think strategically and execute with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basis
Familiarity with operating at least one traditional SQL database; PostgreSQL is highly preferred
Hardware management knowledge or at least notions of how servers get bootstrapped (automatically) in a data center
Experience contributing to Open Source and interacting with Open Source communities is a plus
Familiarity in leveraging AI-powered developer tools to accelerate development workflows.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employee Assistance Program
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend systemsAPIsdistributed systemsgRPCHTTPGoRubyKubernetesDockerSQL

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvinginterpersonal skillscommunication skillsstrategic thinkingsense of urgencycuriositycontinuous improvementdocumentation

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceSoftware Engineering