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Job Summary
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a new India-based team that develops Network APIs and Network Telemetry systems within Equinix’s Network Reliability and Observability Engineering organization. You will hire and grow the team, own delivery and program management, and set technical direction for how network telemetry, asset data, and network APIs are built, operated, and exposed to internal operators, customers, and AI agents.
This is a player-coach leadership role. You will partner with the global Network Observability leadership, product, platform architecture, and Network operations stakeholders across time zones, and you will establish the engineering practices, culture, and operating rhythm of the India team from day one.
Responsibilities
People Management & Team Building
Hire, onboard, and retain engineers across levels, and build a team with deep network software and observability expertise
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…