Software Development Engineer -AI​/Agentic Systems

Company Overview

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.

The Senior Requirements Engineer for AI Agents & Agentic Workflows is a critical role within the Developer Experience Program (EDP), responsible for defining and shaping the requirements for Equinix's most forward‑looking developer productivity investments. You will own the requirements for an agentic execution framework, Claude Code platform integration, an AI Agent Registry, and a low‑code agent build platform. This role sits at the intersection of developer experience, AI/ML platform engineering, and product strategy.

You will translate ambiguous, high‑impact goals—such as reducing PR cycle time by 50% and achieving a 50% developer productivity gain—into precise, actionable requirements that engineering teams can build against. You will work closely with platform engineering, compliance, governance, and AI platform teams.

• Design and build the Agentic Execution Framework: event bus integration, agent scaffolding, human‑in‑the‑loop approval queues, retry and error handling, and end‑to‑end execution traceability.
• Implement Claude Code platform‑native integrations: CI failure triage agent, PR assist agent, unit test generation agent, and the "what should I work on?" developer portal surface.
• Build and maintain the AI Agent Registry: catalog service, agent metadata schema, discovery APIs, trust boundary enforcement, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Develop the Agent Build Platform: a low‑code, UI graph‑based workflow builder that enables developers without deep agentic knowledge to compose and deploy production‑ready agentic workflows.
• Implement agent integration connectors into delivery pipelines, incident management systems, and policy enforcement layers to automate manual handoffs and reduce developer toil.
• Build scoped permission models, execution isolation environments, audit logging, and human‑in‑the‑loop guardrails to ensure agents operate safely within enterprise governance boundaries.
• Instrument all agentic systems with observability hooks—logs, metrics, traces—and integrate with the unified observability platform.
• Write clean, well‑tested, production‑grade code with high coverage; own your services from development through deployment and on‑call.
• Participate in architecture design reviews, contribute to engineering standards, and help define patterns that other teams can follow when building agentic systems.
• Continuously measure impact against developer productivity metrics—PR cycle time, time to first commit, deployment frequency—and iterate based on data.

• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages—Go, Python, Java, or Type Script—with demonstrable experience building event‑driven or distributed systems in production.
• Hands‑on experience building with LLM APIs and agentic frameworks:
  Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Auto Gen, CrewAI, Amazon Bedrock Agents, or equivalents.
• Experience integrating with Git Hub APIs, Git Hub Actions, and CI/CD pipeline systems—building bots, automation workflows, or developer tooling on top of these platforms.
• Practical knowledge of event streaming and messaging systems:
  Kafka, Event Bridge, Rabbit
  
  MQ, or equivalents—able to design reliable, observable event‑driven pipelines.
• Experience building and consuming REST and Graph
  
  QL APIs; comfortable designing service contracts and integration schemas.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, n8n.io, Prefect, or similar.
• Understanding of developer portal frameworks, particularly Backstage—able to build and publish plugins that surface agentic capabilities in the developer experience layer.
• Solid grasp of security…