Senior Software Engineer (Principal)

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.About the RoleWe are looking for a highly experienced and forward-thinking Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and scale a mission-critical platform that orchestrates and manages the activities required to keep our data centers delivering customer outcomes on time and operating at peak efficiency.This platform is at the heart of our operational excellence-ensuring seamless coordination of complex workflows, high reliability, and real-time visibility into data center operations.As a senior technical leader, you will drive architecture, lead engineering excellence, and shape the future of our distributed systems at scale.What You'll DoLead the architecture, design, and development of highly scalable, distributed enterprise systems.Build and evolve a workflow orchestration platform to coordinate and manage complex operational processes across data centers.Design systems focused on high availability, resilience, observability, and performance at scale.Develop robust, cloud-native services using Java, Spring Boot, and React.Create and optimize event-driven architectures leveraging Kafka and modern orchestration frameworks (e.g., Temporal preferred).Architect and implement solutions on AWS, including containerized environments using EKS.Collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, and infrastructure teams to define and deliver system capabilities.Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence through best practices, code qua