Manager, Product Software Architecture and Eng

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary

The Product Software team at Equinix builds next-generation software products and architecture for our Equinix software platform and services offerings. You will build and lead the engineering organization, serving as a hands-on technical mentor and strategic leader for one more diverse, innovative, and driven product engineering team. We are seeking a leader who can manage, mentor, and develop our engineering team. You leverage your experienced leadership & technical acumen to lead and support the team in delivering against specific goals/OKRs defined for the products.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for attracting, retaining, engaging, and developing their teams while also leading and inspiring them to achieve the goals of Equinix
• Aligns the team to company/product OKRs
• Performs quarterly performance reviews for the team
• Setting and refining the engineering vision for this team and collaborating with product management to build best-in-class systems
• Set a strong engineering culture with a focus on quality, engineering fundamentals, and architecture to scale
• Partners with Product Owners, Scrum Leads, and Engineering Managers to define and promote operational excellence and ensure that teams deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable functionalities
• Drive roadmap creation and execution
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience managing teams of engineers and managers
• Previously managed 5+ engineers and have been responsible for their career growth
• Minimum of 8 years of full-stack expertise in cloud-based application development on a microservice architecture, with in-depth knowledge of Java
• Ability to attract, develop, and keep high-quality multi-disciplinary teams
• Have a track record of designing, developing, and implementing complex, low-latency web services with a large consumer base
• Experience leading large teams of engineers and driving large-scale, mission-critical projects and products to succeed in collaboration with product, design, and business teams
• Ability to attract, develop, and keep high-quality multi-disciplinary teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good understanding on the usage of LLMs to develop business applications
• Experience with using AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot/ Cursor, etc
  
  

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