Senior Manager, Product Software Arch and Eng

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Job Summary

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on engineering leader to build and lead a Platform Engineering organization responsible for delivering a secure scalable and reliable API-first Compute Platform for Network & Interconnection Engineering (N&IE). This platform will enable self-service infrastructure accelerate application and automation deployment and provide the foundation for AI-driven and autonomous operations across the organization.

This leader will also manage Quality Engineering team (Function and Performance) for compute based network product offerings.

The successful candidate is a visionary engineering leader who can build a self-service API-first compute platform establish world-class reliability and quality engineering practices and accelerate the organizations transition to AI-Native and autonomous operations. This individual combines deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and a passion for enabling teams to innovate faster through platform capabilities automation and intelligent systems.

Responsibilities

AI-Native Engineering & Autonomous Operations

• Champion AI-Native engineering practices through the adoption of Generative AI Agentic workflows AI-powered development tools and intelligent automation
• Lead development of AI-first platforms agents and operational capabilities that enable agent/agentic development across N&IE teams
• Drive adoption of AIOps and Agentic AI solutions that improve engineering productivity operational efficiency and service reliability

Platform Strategy & Engineering Leadership

• Build and lead high-performing teams across Platform Engineering SRE Infrastructure Operations and Network Edge Validation
• Define and execute the roadmap for an API-first Compute Platform that delivers self-service infrastructure automation observability and platform services for N&IE
• Partner with Product Architecture Engineering Security and Operations leaders to deliver strategic platform capabilities and drive organizational alignment
• Establish a culture of engineering excellence innovation accountability and continuous improvement

Reliability Operations & Platform Services

• Own the availability scalability performance security and operational health of cloud server and hybrid infrastructure platforms
• Drive observability incident management disaster recovery capacity planning and service governance practices
• Establish and maintain reliability standards service objectives (SLIs/SLOs) platform lifecycle management and operational excellence programs

Network Edge Quality Engineering

• Lead the Test Engineering team responsible for functional integration performance scalability resiliency and release validation of VNF/CNF
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle

Security Compliance & Business Management

• Ensure platform environments meet security compliance risk management and data protection requirements
• Partner with governance teams for operational governance vulnerability remediation technology lifecycle management vendor partnerships and budget planning

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience leading Platform Engineering SRE Cloud Infrastructure Network Operations or related engineering organizations including experience building and scaling high-performing teams
• Deep expertise in cloud-native platforms Kubernetes distributed systems infrastructure automation observability reliability engineering and API-driven platform architectures
• Experience building self-service infrastructure platforms or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities
• Proven success driving technology transformation operational excellence and cross-functional execution across Product Engineering Operations and Security organizations
• Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted development Agentic workflows AIOps and AI-Native engineering practices to improve engineering productivity and business outcomes

Preferred Technical Skills

• Platform Engineering/Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and large-scale distributed infrastructure operations
• Cloud-native platforms Kubernetes administration hybrid cloud environments and API-first platform architectures
• Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform Pulumi Ansible or equivalent
• Linux systems bare-metal infrastructure virtualization technologies (KVM Xen or similar) and infrastructure lifecycle management
• Network Edge technologies VNF/CNF validation performance engineering and service reliability
• CI/CD DevOps GitOps observability monitoring incident management and operational governance
• Generative AI Agentic AI AIOps and AI-powered engineering tools

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

United States - Dallas Infomart Office DAI : 177000 - 265000 USD / Annual

United States - Redwood City Office GHQ : 213000 - 319000 USD / 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 Equinixs 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 were providing you with the best package possible. So wherever you are in your career and life youll 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.

US Benefits: - Insurance: You may enroll in health life disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members. - Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future. - Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific plan or program terms.

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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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