We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to join our highly skilled and globally distributed Platform Infrastructure Engineering team, designing solutions for monitoring, troubleshooting, and obtaining telemetry from our Equinix worldwide network.

The ideal candidate will have experience in designing and developing robust architectures that handle large-scale data, establishing standards and guidance for engineering teams, and ensuring the quality of the platform. We are looking for someone with a passion for delivering efficient, automated, and high‑performing systems globally at scale, while following agile methodologies.

Principal Platform Engineer

Your responsibilities

• Architect multi‑region platform strategies across 70+ datacenters, 600+ on‑premises servers, and dozens of Kubernetes clusters.
• Drive infrastructure automation for configuration management of 2000+ VMs, ensuring consistency across distributed Equinix regions.
• Collaborate with global teams (AMER, EMEA, and APAC) on security, networking, and platform standards.
• Implement GitOps practices with ArgoCD for multi‑cluster deployments and drift management.
• Lead, coach, and mentor developers, network engineers, and platform engineers, helping to bridge collaboration between these areas.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal customers and product stakeholders to design effective and scalable solutions.
• Work with technical project managers and product management teams to define and plan multiple projects.
• Participate in on‑call shifts with clear processes and support.

Our requirements

• Strong experience with Kubernetes is required.
• Experience managing on‑premises Linux‑based server infrastructure at scale with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Expertise with Proxmox and/or VMware.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Deep proficiency in Linux systems.
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g.QEMU, KVM, LXC, Docker).
• Experience with networking and routing is desirable.
• Experience with secrets management processes and tooling, such as HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Ability to mentor and coach team members.
• Ability and willingness to work with agile methodologies.
• Comfortable in a team‑oriented and diverse environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and a problem‑solving mindset.

What we offer

• Employment in a stable company with an established position in the market
• Possibility to work within fast growing world’s 500 Fortune digital infrastructure company
• Challenging job in a dynamic, professional, international and multicultural environment
• Possibility to participate in company sponsored trainings package
• Employee Assistance Program – assess to free counselling legal and financial consultations and crisis intervention
• Paid employee referral program
• Opportunity to work in supportive, inclusive environment with People-Centric Culture
• Competitive salary and yearly bonus as well as a well-defined career path shaped to the individuals career focus & priorities
• Attractive benefits package