Senior Director, Developer Experience

Equinix•Redwood City, CA

About The Position

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. We are looking for a Senior Director, Developer Experience to own the developer platform, the IDE, the copilots, and the developer's voice. This role is crucial for scaling under Build Bolder, with a stated ambition to add $100M in enterprise value by 2030. The growth runs on software, and software runs at the speed of its developers. This is a replacement role with the charter to own the developer platform, the IDE, the copilots, and the developer's voice.

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

Own the Developer Platform — the paved road: scalable, secure, performant foundations every engineering team builds on.
Own IDE & AI Copilots — modern IDE integrations and AI-assisted coding that change what a day of engineering feels like.
Own Dev Environments — instant, reproducible environments that erase setup friction and shorten every loop.
Own Voice of the Developer — the listening system: gather, analyze, and act on what engineers actually need.
Lead the Quality Engineering CoE - establish standards, tooling, and culture that make quality a first-class citizen across engineering. This includes: canonical test automation frameworks, stable on-demand test environments, test data management practices, end-to-end and integration test coverage standards, shift-left practices, and AI-assisted testing capabilities. This is a CoE model: set the bar, build the tooling, and raise the floor -- delivery teams own their own quality outcomes.