Principal Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

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.

Provides appropriate design solutions. Verifies stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of architecture. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide scalable and secure solutions.

• 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

• Participates in architectural review process
• Defines architecture, presents to the product management team, to ensure that the architecture is aligned with the product roadmap

• 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

• Participates in cross-technical technical integration and peer reviews
• Writes code based off of open source and third party packages

• Sets testing standards and recommends testing frameworks

• 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

• 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

• Serves as a technical liaison for customer advisories, co-innovations, and single point of contact for incidents

• 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 cycle

• 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 strategy

• 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 location.
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