Director, Product Engineering - Equinix Metal

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 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ 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.

This role can be remote or based in one of our office locations. 

What you’ll be doing: 

• Leading the teams that own, operate and develop our customer facing API and Identity systems, Billing and Software Networking. You will be expected to maintain and continue to iterate on an effective team structure and evolve it as needed. Growth and hiring will be a requisite part of this work. 

• Lead with customer focus and develop strategy/roadmap with Product peers to meet the customers where they are. Demonstrated ability to understand business/customer needs and translate them to technical requirements/roadmap items 

• Help drive design and improve our system architecture, making sure components are built in a way for rapid development, deployment and continuous improvement to iterate faster. 

• Actively develop and grow the bench strengths at technology and leadership levels through mentoring, coaching, training, and talent retention 

• Maintain a strong development culture focused on data-driven and value delivery, while doing it right through core behaviors, psychological safety and intrinsic motivators. 

• Cultivate an empowering and collaborative culture with other partners and within broader Equinix teams 

What we’ll expect of you: 

• 12+ years of experience in technology with progressive increasing responsibility. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. 

• A good concept of scale and a desire to help create and run highly reliable and performant distributed services 

• A demonstrated track record for building and leading distributed software development teams 

• Experience implementing and evolving lifecycle best practices and leading software teams with a strong execution culture. 

• A background of working for SaaS or cloud-based companies focused on agile/lean/continuous development and delivery. 

• Hands-on development and architecture experience (within the last 4 years preferred) 

• Deep understanding of data centers, server and network infrastructure and how those components interrelate and are managed at scale is a bonus. 

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and executing with a sense of urgency, delivering services to meet customer demands on a timely basis 

• Ability to recruit for top technical and operational leaders for the team 

• Excellent communication skills internally and externally 

Does this sound like the right opportunity for you? Apply today! 

We offer Medical, TeleMedicine, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance, 401K, Leave of absence & disability benefits, paid time off & holidays and more. 

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disabilities. 

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