JAVA - Staff Engineer

Experience: 
5+ Years
Permanent
Developer
India

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. We're always looking for creative and visionary people who can help us achieve our goal of global interconnection. With 200 data centers in over 24 countries spanning across 5 continents, we are home to the Cloud, supporting over 1000 Cloud and IT services companies that are directly engaged in technological innovation and development. We are passionate about further evolving the specific areas of software development, software and network architecture, network operations and complex cloud and application solutions.

At Equinix, we make the internet work faster, better, and more reliably. We hire talented people who thrive on solving hard problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, try new approaches, and grow in new directions. Our culture is at the heart of our success and it’s our authentic, humble, gritty people who create The Magic of Equinix. We share a real passion for winning and put the customer at the center of everything we do.

The Product Software team at Equinix builds next-generation software products and architecture for our Equinix software platform and services offerings. We are looking for engineers responsible for developing consistent APIs with microservices, interacting with multiple consumers and abstracting complex Enterprise Application workflows. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop platform services, and to collaborate with partner teams to understand their requirements and consumption patterns. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential. You will work closely with product engineering, architects and product managers.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

  • Contribute to the technical strategy and execution for modular, event-driven, and scalable microservices supporting enterprise workflows.
  • Design and implement reusable frameworks and self-service modules for service onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management.
  • Leverage AI tools to accelerate software design, testing, and operations - e.g., AI-assisted code reviews, test generation, and root cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with senior architects and cross-functional teams on architecture decisions across customer, billing, pricing, and commerce domains.
  • Promote design practices that improve maintainability, observability, and operational excellence.
Shape

Engineering Excellence

  • Lead by example—building secure, reliable, and observable systems that meet performance and scalability goals.
  • Implement and advocate best practices for API-first development, CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps.
  • Partner with product managers and peers to translate business intent into scalable technical solutions.
  • Contribute to automation and AI-driven monitoring that improves reliability and accelerates problem resolution.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience in building robust services, preferably on a Java – based cloud development stack
  • Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design and architectural patterns, and API design  
  • Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience working on cloud-based SaaS/PaaS products
  • Hands-on experience applying AI in software engineering—e.g., using generative AI for design, code, or operational insights.
  • Experience working within the agile process and CI/CD frameworks
  • Ability to transition between programming languages and tool sets
  • Ability to effectively communicate new ideas and design tradeoffs

Successful candidate will

  • Be a talent multiplier who gets the team around them to excel
  • Be persistent, creative and driven to get results relentlessly
  • Exhibit a strong backbone to challenge the status quo, when needed
  • Exhibit a high level of curiosity, keeping abreast of the latest trends & technologies
  • Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken

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