Software Development Engineer

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Equinix is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the CIM team within the Digital and Innovation organization. This organization is responsible for delivering end-to-end observability for infrastructure and IBX environments.

The role focuses on the design, development, and operation of scalable, cloud-based platforms and products. The ideal candidate will bring strong, hands‑on expertise in full stack & Agentic AI development, cloud-native technologies, Agile methodologies, and Dev Sec Ops  practices while working effectively in a globally distributed engineering environment.

The successful candidate will:

• Design and build AI‑default, scalable, highly available enterprise platforms
• Operate in a Dev Sec Ops  environment with a strong, quality‑first mindset
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams and product stakeholders
• Demonstrate ownership, curiosity, and a strong customer focus
• Contribute to architecture, peer reviews, and operational excellence

• Work closely with Product Management and stakeholders to build effective business solutions
• Deliver solutions aligned with architectural principles and guidelines
• Design and develop highly available, scalable, secure, concurrent, and data‑intensive distributed applications
• Develop microservices and RESTful APIs aligned with industry standards

• Operate within a Dev Sec Ops  environment using a quality‑first approach
• Participate in design reviews and peer code reviews
  
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• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues while maintaining compliance with service‑level agreements (SLAs)
• Investigate and evaluate emerging technologies and engineering practices

• Participate in backlog refinement and sprint activities with Product Owners
• Work effectively within a globally distributed development team
• Operate with minimal supervision while maintaining strong accountability

This role is best suited to a highly hands‑on senior engineer who:

• Enjoys full‑stack and cloud‑native engineering
• Has strong experience with microservices and distributed systems
• Can contribute across architecture, development, operations, and production support
• Is comfortable working in modern Dev Sec Ops  environments
• Balances technical depth with strong collaboration and communication skills
• Thrives in fast‑moving enterprise platform teams

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Five or more years of software engineering experience
• Five or more years of strong Java development experience

Strong understanding of:

• Data structures
• Concurrency
• Algorithms
• Design patterns
• Software engineering best practices

• Java, Spring Boot, JPA/Spring Data, and React with Type Script
• Microservices, REST APIs, and Swagger
• Hibernate ORM, Maven, JUnit, JMeter, and Load Runner

• Relational database modelling, relational database management systems (RDBMSs), and No
  
  SQL databases such as Redis, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra
• Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio
• Public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Agentic AI, Lang Chain, Semantic Kernel, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), and agent‑orchestration frameworks
• Micro‑frontends and modern UI frameworks
• Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Test‑driven development (TDD)
• CI/CD pipelines and Git Hub Actions