Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software

Company: Equinix
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 23, 2026

Job Description:

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. This position entails the development of greenfield platform services which authenticate and authorize provisioning APIs used for enabling various Equinix technology streams. An ideal candidate would have 7 years’ experience in the Clojure programming language, familiarity with Identity Access Management, as well as an advanced understanding of building 99.999 reliability in an AWS cloud environment. Responsibilities Software Architecture and Design • Collaborate on the design of a new IAM solution which integrates and coordinates with existing legacy systems to provide seamless customer migration • Create reliable deployment topologies and software designs which satisfy the 99.999 needs of our customers and application partners Development/Coding • Experience in Clojure or other LISP based language • Ability to create written documentation describing complex systems and interactions with existing components • Focus on quality, with an emphasis on building solid unit tests • Understanding of modern IAM constructs such as ABAC, RBAC, Federation / SSO, OpenId Connect, and authoring access policies Customer/Stakeholder Engagement • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal • Ability to act as a consultant for internal and external stakeholders as they migrate to the new platform solutions, potentially updating external product code bases to incorporate new IAM solutions • Customer focused with the ability to design systems and software increments which satisfy specific customer use cases Qualifications • 7 years experience • Bachelors in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

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