Senior Manager, Product Software Arch and Eng

Equinix•Redwood City, CA

25d•$177,000 - $319,000

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

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
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
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
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
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