Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Platform

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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

You'll design, build, and own the tooling that powers Equinix's API ecosystem. This includes API governance and specifications, SDK/IaC/documentation generation, and developer platform workflows-running on Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. You'll lead technically across teams, improve developer experience, and raise reliability through automation (including AI-assisted checks).

What You'll Do

API & Platform Engineering

• Define and evolve API lifecycle standards (OpenAPI, OAuth2/OIDC, versioning, deprecation, backward compatibility).
• Build and operate pipelines that generate SDKs, Terraform providers/modules, and documentation from API specifications.
• Align API designs with gateways/edge and identity/security to ensure scalable, secure integrations.

Development & Automation

• Build core tooling in Go and/or Python (generators, validators, CI helpers, release tooling).
• Own CI/CD for API tooling and developer platforms (build, test, release, rollback).
• Use automation and AI-assisted workflows to reduce toil with deterministic verification and human review gates.

Reliability & Operations

• Own SLOs, observability, alerting, and runbooks for ecosystem pipelines.
• Lead incident response and post-incident improvements across validation, generation, and platform builds.
• Apply safe change management practices (canaries, feature flags, staged rollouts).

Enablement & Leadership

• Act as a champion for developer experience and API usability.
• Provide high-leverage reviews and guidance to teams integrating or changing APIs and tooling.
• Lead multi-team initiatives across specifications, generators, IaC releases, and developer platform upgrades.

What You'll Bring

• Senior Staff-level experience building and operating production systems or internal developer platforms.
• Deep experience with API lifecycle management and governance (OpenAPI, OAuth2/OIDC, versioning, compatibility).
• Strong coding skills in Go and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (providers and modules), Kubernetes, and Linux-based CI/CD.
• Familiarity with gateways/edge technologies (e.g., Apigee, ALB, Ingress, Envoy) and identity/authorization patterns.
• An automation-first mindset and comfort owning systems end-to-end while leading through influence.

Nice to Have

• Experience with SDK generation for multi-language clients and compatibility testing.
• Experience with developer and documentation platforms (e.g., Docusaurus, Backstage, Confluence), including plugins and build integrations.
• Experience with MCP and safe agentic/AI workflows for developer tooling.

Who Should Apply

Engineers who:

• Work deeply with APIs and enjoy making them easy to adopt and hard to break.
• Build with Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, and automate wherever possible.
• Enjoy improving developer platforms and workflows as much as writing services.
• Operate with ownership, cross-team influence, and high standards for reliability.

The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

Poland - Warsaw Office WAO : 257,000 - 425,000 PLN / 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.The pay range shown is based on our compensation structure in place at the time of posting and may be updated periodically based on business needs. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.

The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.

Equinix Benefits

As an employee, you become important to Equinix's success. We ensure all your benefits are in line with our core values: competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected and efficient. We keep them competitive within the current marketplace to ensure we're providing you with the best package possible. So, wherever you are in your career and life, you'll be able to enhance your experience and bring your whole self to work.

Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.
Core Benefits - Pension: You will be enrolled in the employee capital plan or pension, known as PPK, a contributory pension scheme for you and your employer to save funds intended for withdrawal on retirement. Private Medical Insurance: You may enroll yourself and eligible dependents in Private Medical Insurance (PMI) for greater choice, flexibility, and access to specialist care for short-term illness or injury and so on. Life and Accident Insurance: Equinix provides Life and Accident Insurance cover for its employees which you can enroll in. Other Benefits and Perks - Employees have the option to select and use from a wide range of other benefits including: Annual Leaves, Flex Wallet (flexible spending account), Multi-sport Card, Lunch Pass Card, Discount Portal, statutory allowances and reimbursements (remote working, corrective glasses reimbursement), and paid and unpaid leaves in line with local market practices and regulatory requirements. More details on eligibility and rules for leaves are in Equinix's HR policies. Eligibility and contribution requirements apply to some benefits, in line with company policy. Benefits are subject to specific plan/program or insurer terms and conditions, including changes at Equinix's discretion. Equinix will be compliant will regulatory requirements on benefits and leaves.

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote, Warsaw, Poland

Job ID: Equinix-103767353

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-03-13T18:43:09