Vice President of Core Product Services Engineering, Equinix
$260-414k
Salary dependent on location
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$260-414k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Substantial experience in software management leading large global software teams of 50+ engineers as a manager of directors / senior directors
- Strong cloud networking product experience and experience delivering software-defined SaaS products
- Proven experience leading and developing an enterprise-grade common services platform with multiple upstream applications
- Solid experience designing, developing, and running cloud-based production systems with high availability and reliability
- Strong intellect, ideally with a master’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering
- Is a transformational leader who excels at driving bold and meaningful change at scale and across multiple dimensions
- Leads with a global mindset, across cultures, in a highly matrixed, relationship and consensus-driven environment
- Cultivates Innovation – creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation
What the job involves
- As the Vice President (VP) of Core Product Services, reporting to the SVP of Infrastructure within Equinix’s Global Markets and Products Organization (GMPO), you will lead a dynamic, widely distributed team of 100 software and product engineers
- The VP’s mission will be to drive the growth and development of common services for Equinix’s Infrastructure, Interconnection and Edge products used by our customers globally
- By consolidating groups aligned around common patterns, this team streamlines development and enhances efficiency, focusing on areas such as a shared compute platform expansion, build pipelines, telemetry substrate, and Identity and Access Management
- This approach enables diverse service teams to prioritize solving customer problems rather than managing foundational technologies
- The VP Core Product Services ensures scalable, secure, and agile processes adaptable to evolving technologies
- As the VP, you will emphasize delivering on the product roadmap through collaboration with Product Managers, Engineers, and business leaders to achieve product-market fit, build early traction, and scale effectively
- Key priorities include fostering integration, accountability, rapid iteration through automation, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to enhance practices and build capabilities for sustainable growth
- Build, coach and expand the Product and Engineering teams to support business success
- Drive technology roadmap for Infrastructure Core Services, aligned to company strategy and priorities
- Lead multiple scrum teams to review requirements, provide impact assessment on architecture, lead capacity planning, execution, review technical design, test planning and ensuring code quality
- Inspire innovation among teams, recognizing and disseminating new ideas across multiple global locations
- Define Infrastructure Core Services technology requirements and work with cross functional teams to deliver solutions to address market opportunities and risks
- Work with functional stakeholders for Infrastructure Core Services and also with cross-product engineering, architecture, product management, user experience teams to ensure that the platform needs are understood and a vision to build the cross-product platform
- Ensures execution to align with broader Infrastructure Services and engineering and Product Management best practices
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team to define and manage cross-product platform non-functional matrix including service standards, SLA’s for uptime & monitoring
- Works closely with CTO and CDO organizations and multiple internal cross functional teams and executive leaders
- Provides forward thinking thought leadership and guidance for creating Infrastructure policies and standards that are in line with Infrastructure priorities and expectations
- Collaborate with architecture council on technology evaluation and PoC
- Proactively adjusts Infrastructure process framework based on internal and external market dynamics
- Partners cross functionally and cross regionally to develop globally standardized processes and policies
- Oversee translation of Infrastructure Services and Network Edge
- Requirements into high quality technology development that meets scope, scale, timeline and budgetary requirement
- Proven thought leadership in leading Agile software development methodology and apply rapid delivery of features and releases using Continuous Integration /Continuous Development
- Develop repeatable processes for the development, deployment and lifecycle management of the platform
- Track record of responsibility for driving the research of Proofs of Concept and forward-looking strategies for cloud networking products
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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