Senior Manager, Product Software Arch and Eng

Equinix•Redwood City, CA

12d

About The Position

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 organization's 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.