Principal Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. A place where tech thinkers and future builders turn bold ideas into breakthrough experiences, we welcome your unique perspective.

Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

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 open source and third party packages

Testing

Sets testing standards and recommends testing frameworks

Dev Ops Articulates  a vision of on-prem and cloud infrastructure and drives its realization

Provides executive team with updates aligning with the vision, charter and roadmap

Participates in customer meetings to understand the Cloud and Dev Ops vision

Brings in industry tools automation expertise and aligns Equinix practices accordingly

Develops innovative solutions, processes and best practices by leading internal technical teams

Software Reliability & Support Engineering Manages internal/external customer relationships and communication, working with all the Product Stakeholders Participates in customer calls to understand issues and provide solutions

Defines and publishes the SLA metrics and the compliance reports

Ensures and enables ITIL compliance

Customer/Stakeholder Engagement Serves as a technical liaison for customer advisories, co-innovations, and single point of contact for incidents

Technical Project Management Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule on multiple projects

Provides overall project status reporting

Manages and influences cross-functional release cycleR&D/Innovation Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies

Influences senior management in setting the organization's technical objectives

Keeps abreast of new developments to help define the necessary changes to practice

Has a significant impact on future products, technologies and business strategyQualifications
10+ years experience

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

United States - Redwood City Office GHQ : 218, USD / Annual
United States - Denver Office DEO : 181, USD / Annual
United States - Frisco Office DAF : 181, USD / Annual
United States - Dallas Infomart Office DAI : 181, USD / Annual
United States - Tampa Office TAO : 181, USD / Annual
United States - New York City Office NYO1 : 200, USD / Annual
Canada : 142, CAD / Annual
Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and…