Manager, Software Development Engineer

Overview

Lead the strategy, engineering, operations, and modernization of Equinix's API gateway and integration platform ecosystem, driving API-first architecture and highly available API management and integration platforms.

What you'll do

• Own the vision, roadmap, and strategy for Equinix's API Gateway and Integration Platforms
• Drive enterprise-wide API management, integration, and platform engineering standards
• Champion API-first and event-driven architecture practices across engineering teams
• Align platform capabilities with business priorities through collaboration with business and technology leaders
• Lead platform modernization initiatives supporting digital transformation objectives
• Own and operate enterprise API Gateway platforms, including Apigee and related API management technologies
• Establish standards for the complete API lifecycle, including design, security, publishing, versioning, monetization, and retirement
• Ensure API platforms meet scalability, reliability, performance, and security requirements
• Accelerate adoption of reusable APIs and self-service developer capabilities
• Lead enterprise integration platforms such as Boomi and Workato, enabling application, cloud, SaaS, B2B, and partner integrations
• Drive modernization from legacy middleware and point-to-point integrations to cloud-native integration platforms and event-driven architectures
• Define integration standards leveraging REST APIs, event streaming, messaging, and asynchronous communication patterns
• Build reusable integration services, connectors, and shared platform capabilities
• Establish operational excellence through SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and SRE best practices
• Lead production support, incident management, problem management, and platform reliability programs
• Implement comprehensive observability, monitoring, alerting, automation, and self-healing capabilities
• Define governance, security, compliance, and onboarding standards for APIs and integrations
• Drive cloud-native platform engineering using Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
• Ensure resilient disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit readiness, including SOX compliance
• Build and develop high-performing teams of API, Integration, Boomi, DevOps, and Platform Engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, integration engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture
• 4+ years of leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams
• Deep experience operating enterprise API Gateway platforms such as Apigee, Kong, NGINX API Gateway, MuleSoft API Manager, or Azure API Management
• Experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk
• Strong experience with enterprise integration platforms (like Boomi, Workato etc.) and integration architecture
• Proven experience building and operating large-scale, highly available production platforms
• Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience implementing Kubernetes-based platforms
• Strong understanding of API security and governance frameworks
• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and Platform Engineering practices
• Strong understanding of FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Experience managing vendor relationships, budgets, and platform roadmaps

Details

• Location: Bangalore Office BLS2, India
• Backfill position to fill an existing vacancy