Senior Director, Developer

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 turn bold ideas into breakthrough experiences, we welcome your unique perspective.

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.

Equinix | Build Bolder

Build the platform that makes every Equinix engineer faster and turn that velocity into enterprise value.

Equinix is scaling under Build Bolder, with a stated ambition to add $100M in enterprise value by 2030. That growth runs on software, and software runs at the speed of its developers.

This is a replacement role charter: own the developer platform, the IDE, the copilots, and the developer's voice.

What you'll own

• Developer Platform — the paved road: scalable, secure, performant foundations every engineering team builds on
• IDE & AI Copilots — modern IDE integrations and AI-assisted coding that change what a day of engineering feels like
• Dev Environments — instant, reproducible environments that erase setup friction and shorten every loop
• Voice of the Developer — the listening system: gather, analyze, and act on what engineers actually need
• Quality Engineering CoE - the standards, tooling, and culture that make quality a first-class citizen across engineering. This includes: canonical test automation frameworks teams can adopt without reinventing; stable, on-demand test environments that don't become the bottleneck before every release; test data management practices that make realistic, safe data accessible at every layer; end-to-end and integration test coverage standards with visibility into gaps across the portfolio;
  
  shiftleft practices that move quality decisions earlier in the SDLC -- into design and PR, not just pre-prod; and AI-assisted testing capabilities that reduce the human cost of coverage. This is a CoE model: you set the bar, build the tooling, and raise the floor -- delivery teams own their own quality outcomes

• 0–90 days — Meet the engineers. Identify the highest-friction points in developer onboarding, environments, and tooling. Ship visible improvements. Shape platform strategy from what you learn in motion, not from a standing start
• 6 months — Developers are actively using our platform, with adoption you can point to. Listening mechanisms are live and informing the backlog. The Quality Engineering team has a founding framework: one canonical test automation stack, environments that don't block releases, and a shift-left standard teams are adopting
• 12–18 months — The paved road is real and most teams are on it by choice: standardized environments, test frameworks, and copilot integrations that feel like the obvious default, not a mandate. Developer velocity and satisfaction are measurable and moving. Quality gaps across the portfolio are visible, tracked, and shrinking. The platform is a competitive advantage you can tell a story about

• Scale that's rare — global, matrixed, mission‑critical infrastructure; your tools touch every engineer, every day
• A start‑up charter — an intrapreneurial mandate inside a company with the balance sheet to back bold bets
• AI at the center — copilots and AI‑assisted development are core to the role, not a side experiment
• Measurable legacy — velocity and satisfaction gains that ladder straight into the Build Bolder value story

What you bring

• 15+ years in software engineering, including 5+ leading…