Own performance management for direct reports, including the GPS process, Total Rewards allocation, quarterly conversations, career pathways, and individual development plans
Coach engineers on technical growth and engineering craft, and build a pipeline of future tech leads
Model Equinix culture and values, and ensure the team operates in line with local labor law and regulations
Program & Project Management
Own end-to-end delivery of Network API and telemetry projects, including major, minor, and patch releases
Work with Technical Project Managers, product engineering managers, and portfolio leads across locations
Identify delivery risks early, propose mitigations, and escalate with clear options
Manage resource allocation, utilization, and budget; request approvals for spend or headcount outside the approved plan
Report project status, KPIs, and resource data to senior management
Responsible for the planning of strategic priorities
Responsible for developing and communicating a roadmap of projects and initiatives to project/functional stakeholders
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Participate in and drive architecture and design reviews for Network API and telemetry platforms
Ensure designs integrate streaming telemetry, flow data, SNMP, topology, and inventory data into reliable, queryable, well-governed API/Streaming and MCP interfaces
Guide API design standards (REST, gRPC, GraphQL), data modeling, versioning, and contract testing
Champion code quality, peer review, testing strategy, and CI/CD practices
Partner with global teams to adopt AI-native patterns, such as exposing network capabilities through MCP servers and agent-ready APIs
Works with SRE and Platform team on sizing and requesting infrastructure requirement for observability
Operational Excellence & Reliability and Reporting
Own production health for the team’s services, including SLOs, on-call practices, runbooks, and incident response
Utilizes subject matter expertise to implement improvements to internal processes and integrate systems supporting these processes
Lead troubleshooting for critical issues with cross-functional teams, and oversee RCA cycles and repeat-issue remediation
Drive improvements to observability pipelines, alerting quality, data accuracy, and platform scalability
Collects, analyzes, organizes and presents the data to senior management on projects and resources
Executes against operational KPIs
Stakeholder & Customer Engagement
Partner with product management, Ops, X-functional engineering, and platform teams to translate requirements into roadmaps and commitments
Manage stakeholder communication, conflict resolution, escalations, and priority shifts
Represent the India team in global forums, and maintain strong working overlap with US and EMEA counterparts
Roadmap, Process & Innovation
Develop and communicate the team’s roadmap and strategic priorities
Create and refine processes, standards, and policies, and monitor adherence
Drive innovation, such as anomaly detection, natural-language network queries, and AI-assisted troubleshooting, and encourage the team to prototype and share learnings
Qualifications
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years in a software development leadership role (people management of engineers)
Hands-on background in network software systems, especially network observability or telemetry platforms, NMS/EMS, or network automation and inventory systems
Working knowledge of network concepts (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, topology modelling) and network data sources (SNMP, streaming telemetry/gNMI, NetFlow/IPFIX, syslog)
Experience with observability and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Loki, or equivalents
Strong engineering background in Python, or Java, and experience designing and operating production APIs at scale
Experience with program management: planning, estimation, risk management, release management, and reporting to senior leadership
Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating across time zones with global stakeholders
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience with telecom, service provider, data center, or interconnection platforms (e.g., Equinix Fabric, Network Edge)
Familiarity with CMDB/DCIM, network inventory, or graph-based topology systems
Exposure to AI-native development: LLM tool calling, agent frameworks, Model Context Protocol (MCP), RAG
Experience with vendor or consulting resource management
Prior experience setting up or scaling a new engineering site or team
What You’ll Own
A high-performing India engineering team, hired and grown by you
Network API and telemetry services that are reliable, well-documented, and consumed by humans and AI agents
A predictable delivery and operating cadence with global partners
The technical and people foundation for the India site's long-term role in Network Observability
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