Dir, Product Software Architecture
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and service providers. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.
At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.
We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
What you would do
- Drive execution of 2-3 major product areas, managing multiple teams
- Closely collaborate with product management and internal customers across Equinix on requirements and schedule
- Get the right people in the right seats to accomplish the team's mission
- Build an R&D culture, bootstrapping new solutions or dependencies as needed
- Foster an efficient build-it-and-run-it culture, blurring the lines between operations and development, reducing time to fix things that are broken
- Engage the global Equinix community internally and externally. Much of the work of the team will be freely available to the world
Who you are
- You've led orgs of 15-20 people for multiple years and understand the motions (preferably leading other managers, but not strictly required)
- You have opinions about the technical details, and can lead by example, but your focus is primarily fostering strong leadership for your organization
- You have a history of software development and operations at a senior level. You either learned to write code because you were tired of doing things by hand, or you learned operations because you had a passion for seeing your code come to life
- You're an expert in some programming language. You need to be able to motivate engineers who are building production software
- You make decisions with data when available, and push for making them available when they aren't
- You enjoy communicating through written English. As knowledge workers, we are effectively teachers and historians
- You're a servant leader, understanding that your team is successful because of you working to empower them and remove barriers
The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:
- San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $201,000 to $341,000
- California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $197,000 to $335,000
- Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $182,000 to $310,000
Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.
This position may be offered in other locations. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.
As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. To help you achieve professional and personal goals, we provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that include a blend of rewards to attract, motivate, recognize, and retain talented people like you. We offer you key rewards including base pay and incentive pay, benefits for health and wellness, retirement plans for your future, and recognition programs. We’re committed to our employees by providing ongoing dialogue, education and resources that enable you to thrive and make informed decisions at each life stage.
Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you need assistance in applying for an open position, you may send an email to Staffing@equinix.com. Please provide your contact information and let us know how we can assist you.
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.