London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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 connec…
Skills: Product Roadmap Ownership, Software Architecture, AI Agent Systems, LLM Applications, Engineering Leadership
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$88k–$132k/yr
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 tech thinkers and future builders tur…
Skills: Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, Microservices
Tokyo, Japan · On-site
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 connec…
Skills: Queue Management, Rack and Stack, Cable Management, Cross-Connect Troubleshooting, Layer 1 Testing
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site
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 connec…
Skills: Electrical Maintenance, Mechanical Maintenance, Facility Management, Project Management, Asset Management
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid
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 connec…
Skills: Corporate Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Contract Negotiation, Legal Research, SEC Reporting
Milan, Lombardy, Italy · Hybrid
$48k–$73k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Controls Engineering, Building Management Systems (BMS), Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM), BACnet, Modbus
London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
$177k–$265k/yr
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 tech thinkers and future builders tur…
Skills: Enterprise Networking Architecture, BGP/EVPN, VXLAN, SD-WAN, Zero Trust
London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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 connec…
Skills: Python, Go, Network Design, Automation, API Development
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland · Hybrid
$139k–$223k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Statutory Accounting, CAPEX Management, Fixed Assets Accounting, IFRS, Local GAAP
Milan, Lombardy, Italy · Hybrid
$37k–$56k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Budget Management, Forecasting, Procure-to-Pay, Financial Reporting, Variance Analysis
Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site
$51k–$77k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Structured Cabling, Fiber Optics, Cross-connects, Technical Troubleshooting, Rack and Stack
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid
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 connec…
Skills: ServiceNow, ITSM, CSM, Service Portal, JavaScript
Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site
$58k–$86k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Queue Management, Rack and Stack, Cable Management, Cross-Connect Installation, Layer 1/2/3 Testing
Dallas, Texas, United States · Hybrid
$136k–$204k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Benefits Management, Total Rewards Strategy, Budgeting & Forecasting, Vendor Management, M&A Due Diligence
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$118k–$176k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Risk Mitigation, Executive Communication, Cross-functional Leadership
Manchester, England, United Kingdom · On-site
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 connec…
Skills: Fibre Cabling, Cat6a Cabling, Rack And Stack, Cross-Connects, TCP/IP
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$186k–$280k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Product Lifecycle Management, Product Strategy, Roadmap Development, Market Analysis, Competitive Analysis
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany · Hybrid
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 connec…
Skills: Pre-sales Technical Consultancy, Solution Design, Technical Consulting, Stakeholder Management, RFI/P/Q Preparation
Dallas, Texas, United States · Hybrid
$155k–$233k/yr
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 tech thinkers and future builders tur…
Skills: Security Engineering, Platform Engineering, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes
Westmont, Illinois, United States · On-site
$67k–$101k/yr
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 connec…
Skills: Facility Maintenance, Data Center Operations, MEP Systems, BMS Monitoring, Power Distribution
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Lead the engineering pods and product roadmap for the orchestration layer, persona consoles, and agent capabilities within Equinix Incubation. Drive the delivery-engine strategy from MVP to organization-wide scale while managing distributed teams in the UK and India.
Requires 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of leadership and a proven track record of scaling enterprise platforms. Must possess hands-on fluency with LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, and executive-grade communication skills.
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.
Equinix Incubation builds the systems that support the software delivery lifecycle end to end, with humans directing the work and owning every critical gate. This role owns the product, the roadmap, and the engineering team behind that capability. You will lead the engineering pods building the orchestration layer, persona consoles, agent capabilities, dashboards, and enterprise integrations, carrying the roadmap from first MVP through live adoption and organization-wide scale.This is a player-coach leadership role for someone who can connect product vision, architectural direction, executive alignment, and team-building into one coherent delivery strategy.
Own the Product and the Roadmap
Define and drive the delivery-engine roadmap across orchestrator, agent fleet, consoles, dashboards, and enterprise integrations, sequenced for measurable value.
Make the build-measure-learn loop real: ship in sprints, pilot with live delivery teams, and let adoption and telemetry reshape the plan.
Own trade-off decisions across scope, quality, cost, and speed, and defend them with data in front of senior leadership.
Build and Lead the Pods
Hire, grow, and retain a small, exceptional team of agent engineers, platform engineers, and delivery talent across the UK and India.
Run lean pods where agents do the routine work and people do the judgment work; model that way of working yourself.
Set a high and supportive performance bar through clear expectations, direct feedback, strong coaching, and meaningful career growth.
Prove the Value
Own the value story: cycle time, throughput, quality, adoption, and realized business value, instrumented and reported clearly.
Keep the economics honest: agent cost, platform cost, and capacity unlocked, treated as first-class engineering metrics.
Turn pilot wins into an expansion case that finance and function leaders believe.
Set the Operating Standard
Establish how agent-first engineering is done: evals as release gates, human-in-the-loop approvals, and responsible AI governance in partnership with InfoSec, architecture, and enterprise AI governance teams.
Represent the platform in architecture and governance forums, and keep the roadmap aligned with enterprise platform and data strategy.
Share patterns, standards, and playbooks so other teams can adopt what your team proves.
The delivery engine is in daily use by live delivery teams, with measurable cycle-time and quality gains that stand up to finance scrutiny.
You have built a team with a hiring record, retention, and performance bar that reflect the ambition of the mandate.
Executives trust your roadmap because what you commit to ships, and what ships gets measured.
The operating standards your team sets are being adopted beyond your immediate organization.
Required
12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams or engineering-led products.
A record of shipping and scaling platforms or products in an enterprise, from first release through adoption.
Hands-on fluency with modern AI: LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, and what it takes to make them production-grade.
Strong architectural judgment across APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration.
Proven hiring and talent development record, including building distributed teams.
Executive-grade communication: you can carry a room of senior stakeholders with a clear, honest narrative.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience delivering AI or automation platforms into regulated or security-conscious enterprises.
Experience with agent frameworks and protocols such as MCP or A2A, and with eval-driven quality practices.
Experience running product operating models: roadmaps, funding cases, value realization.
Background in developer platforms, SDLC tooling, or engineering productivity.
Product & Technical Leadership
Roadmap ownership; architectural judgment; trade-off decision-making; systems thinking.
People Leadership
Hiring and talent development; lean pod design; coaching; distributed team leadership.
AI-First Operating Model
Agent-first ways of working; evals and governance; human-in-the-loop design; value instrumentation.
Executive Influence
Narrative and communication; stakeholder alignment; funding and value cases; calm under scrutiny.
Incubation is a durable capability, not a project team: the team persists, and the product focus evolves. Agentic delivery is the first product; future incubation opportunities will follow.
In this role, you will define how AI-first engineering works at Equinix and build the team that proves it. Few Director roles offer this combination of product ownership, architectural influence, executive visibility, and team-building scope.
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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.
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The world's digital infrastructure company®
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
Offices: One Lagoon Drive, Redwood City, California 94065, US · Luttenbergweg 4, 1101 EC, Amsterdam, NL · Units 6501-04A & 6507-08, 65/F, International Commerce Centre,, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK · 1188 E Arques Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, US · 639 Gardeners Rd, Sydney, NSW 2020, AU
The world's digital infrastructure company®
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
Offices: One Lagoon Drive, Redwood City, California 94065, US · Luttenbergweg 4, 1101 EC, Amsterdam, NL · Units 6501-04A & 6507-08, 65/F, International Commerce Centre,, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK · 1188 E Arques Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, US · 639 Gardeners Rd, Sydney, NSW 2020, AU
