Senior Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack Platform

Who are we

Equinix is the worlds digital infrastructure company, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriersbecause progress starts with fresh ideas. Youll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes youbecause when you feel valued, youre empowered to do your best work.

About Equinix

Equinix is the leading global interconnection platform, accelerating business performance by connecting companies to their customers and partners inside the world’’s most networked data centers. More than 4,800+ of the world’’s most demanding customers trust us to provide a place where they can run their mission-critical applications and grow their businesses. Our dream is to interconnect the world and create a historically significant company in the process. Today we area$9billionannual revenuecompany with over 13,000+ employees worldwide, andwe’‘regrowing. Our global ecosystem is larger than our next 10 competitors combined, providing customers access to 2,000+ network services, 3,000+ cloud and IT services, 450+ content and digital media services, and 4,800+ enterprises.

If this sounds like the kind of companyyou’‘dlike to work for, it gets better. Equinix’’s Software Architecture Engineering team is on a mission to build next-generation platforms that power global operations at scale.We’‘relooking for excellent software engineers with a product-building mindset to help drive that mission forward.

Why This Role

You’‘llbe architecting and building the platform that Equinix’’s global data center operationsrunson-working at the intersection of enterprise architecture, full stack delivery, and AI-assisted engineering. The problems are real, the scale is global, and the decisions you make here will shape how thousands of technicians and engineers work across 70+ metros worldwide.

About the Role

We’‘remodernisingthe platforms that power day-to-day operations across Equinix’’s global data center network-moving to a modern full stack architecture built around a configurable framework, so our teams can adapt faster and scale without one-off development every time requirements change.

This is aSenior Staff (Expert) Engineerrole.You’‘llown detailed technical design and hands-on delivery, working across business stakeholders, enterprise architects, and cross-functional engineering teams.You’‘llalso serve as the technical anchor-settingthe standard and shaping how things get built.

Stack:React Spring Boot Java PostgreSQL CI/CD GitHub Copilot

What You’‘ll Do

Technical Leadership

• Own detailed technical design and architecture-translating enterprise architecture direction into implementation-ready, application-level solutions

• Drive the platform shift toward a configurable framework model-building services that scale across varied operational workflows

• Set engineering standards across the team: code quality, design patterns, performance, and security

• Serve as the senior technical voice fortheleading design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentoring

Hands-On Delivery

• Lead full stack development with a current frontend emphasis (React), contributing meaningfully on the backend (Spring Boot); flexibility across both layers is essential as platform priorities evolve

• Build and maintain microservices with Spring Boot and PostgreSQL as the primary data layer

• Integrate with upstream and downstream systems across a complex enterprise landscape

• Develop andmaintainCI/CD pipelines to support high-velocity, reliable delivery

AI-Assisted Engineering

• Lead the team’’s AI-assisted development practices-writing precise prompts, reviewing generated output with the samerigouras hand-written code, and owning the maintainability of everything that ships

• Use GitHub Copilot as a tool that accelerates engineering quality, not just output volume

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with business teams, architects, and engineering peers to turn ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions

• Influence design decisions across teams through technical credibility and clear communication

What We’‘re Looking For

Required

• 8+ years of hands-on software development in enterprise or large-scale distributed systems enviro…