Software Development Engineer

Position: Software Development Engineer Staff
Who are we?

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 We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to own the inner loop of our developer platform — the scaffolding, environment bootstrap, and shared library systems that determine how fast and confidently engineers go from idea to first commit. This role is foundational: the composable scaffolding engine, declarative service schemas, and template lifecycle systems you build will directly determine whether developers experience a golden path or a maze of tribal knowledge and configuration drift.

You will design and ship opinionated, production-grade tooling that generates repositories, CI pipelines, baseline tests, and infrastructure hooks from a single schema declaration — and maintain those templates safely over time as the platform evolves. This is not a role for someone who has used golden-path systems; it's for someone who has built and operated them ponsibilities

Composable Scaffolding Engine Design and build the engine that generates repositories, CI/CD pipelines, baseline tests, configuration, and platform integrations from declarative service schemas with opinionated defaults and extensibility hooks

Own the full scaffolding surface: repo generator, CI/CD pipeline generator, config manager, secrets/env var wiring, and integration layer into Git Hub and cloud providers

Ensure generated scaffolds are immediately functional — wired to CI, observability, and infra hooks from day one, with no blank-page setup required

Declarative Service & Workload Schemas Define and maintain the schema specification that captures application type, runtime, dependencies, testing defaults, and infrastructure intent in a standardized, versioned format

Build validation tooling (CLI and CI-integrated) to enforce schema correctness and surface errors early

Reduce time-to-first-commit from the current 18–40 day range to under one week Template Lifecycle Management Build the versioning, validation, and upgrade system that evolves scaffolds over time while preserving backward compatibility for downstream projects

Implement three-way merge logic (template old template new customized service) with rollback safety and customization detection so teams can adopt template updates without breaking builds

Local Dev & Environment Bootstrap Build and maintain standardized local and ephemeral development environment descriptors (devcontainers, Docker Compose, golden images) with parity validation against CI and target runtimes

Implement environment automation: just-in-time provisioning triggered by pull request, configuration injection for secrets and service discovery, and tear-down automation

Implement environment health and drift detection to catch "works on my machine" failures before they reach CIReusable Shared Libraries Build and maintain versioned shared libraries for cross-cutting concerns — logging, encryption, auto-configuration, trace propagation, and Docker base images — as consumable, consistent building blocks for all application teams

Ensure libraries are secure from inception and reduce fragmentation in security posture and reliability across the service ecosystem

Technical Production experience building developer platform tooling — repo generators, CI/CD scaffolding…