Senior Director, Developer Experience

Equinix•Toronto, ON

6d•$269,000 - $403,000•Onsite

About The Position

Equinix is scaling under Build Bolder, with a stated ambition to add $100M in enterprise value by 2030. That growth runs on software, and software runs at the speed of its developers. This is a replacement role charter: own the developer platform, the IDE, the copilots, and the developer's voice. The role involves building the platform that makes every Equinix engineer faster and turning that velocity into enterprise value.

Requirements

15+ years in software engineering, including 5+ leading engineering teams
Proven track record building developer platforms, tools, or frameworks at scale
Deep fluency in modern IDEs, cloud dev environments, and AI-assisted development
Strong systems thinking across backend and infrastructure layers of tooling
A transformational leader who drives change through influence, across cultures
Genuine empathy for the daily friction engineers face — and the drive to remove it
Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Developer Platform — the paved road: scalable, secure, performant foundations every engineering team builds on
IDE & AI Copilots — modern IDE integrations and AI-assisted coding that change what a day of engineering feels like
Dev Environments — instant, reproducible environments that erase setup friction and shorten every loop
Voice of the Developer — the listening system: gather, analyze, and act on what engineers actually need
Quality Engineering CoE - the standards, tooling, and culture that make quality a first-class citizen across engineering. This includes: canonical test automation frameworks teams can adopt without reinventing; stable, on-demand test environments that don't become the bottleneck before every release; test data management practices that make realistic, safe data accessible at every layer; end-to-end and integration test coverage standards with visibility into gaps across the portfolio; shiftleft practices that move quality decisions earlier in the SDLC -- into design and PR, not just pre-prod; and AI-assisted testing capabilities that reduce the human cost of coverage. This is a CoE model: you set the bar, build the tooling, and raise the floor -- delivery teams own their own quality outcomes