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Role Overview
We are looking for a highly technical, impact-driven Product Manager to own and drive the evolution of our next-generation Operational Data Store and Distributed Order Fulfillment Platform.
In this role, you will lead the strategy and execution for a high-throughput, low-latency data platform that ingests, models, and exposes critical business entities via a robust API layer. You will bridge the gap between heavy cloud infrastructure (distributed relational and graph databases) and multi-system business orchestration, ensuring that data is securely accessible, highly performant, and perfectly aligned with the needs of engineering teams across the organization.
This is a platform product role. There may be no user interface (UI). Your products are APIs, pipelines, and orchestration engines; your customers are fellow engineers, architects, and downstream technical teams.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Strategy & Platform Engineering Drive
- Data Pipeline & ODS Evolution: Define the roadmap for scalable, real-time, and batch data pipelines that feed a globally distributed Operational Data Store (ODS).
- Architecture Collaboration: Partner with data engineers and architects to leverage cloud-native big data tech (e.g., Google Cloud Spanner) for relational transactional data and Graph Databases for complex entity relationship mapping.
- Enterprise Authorization & Identity: Own the security posture of the data platform by designing and implementing the right Identity & Access Management (IAM) principles and fine-grained authorization policies at the API layer.
2. End-to-End Execution & Order Orchestration- Distributed Orchestration: Drive the design and capability of engines that orchestrate stateful order fulfillment workflows smoothly across highly decoupled internal and external systems.
- API Contract Ownership: Propose, define, and enforce robust API contracts (REST, gRPC, or GraphQL). You will ensure that both your engineering team and consuming teams strictly adhere to these interfaces to prevent breaking changes.
- Technical Validation: Actively participate in technical verification. You must be comfortable going beyond documentation-using tools like Postman, cURL, or writing basic scripts to hit APIs, validate response payloads, and test edge-case failure scenarios.
3. Stakeholder Management & Roadmapping- Cross-Functional Discovery: Act as a consultative partner to engineering leaders, product teams, and business units across the organization. Conduct deep-dive discovery to understand their technical pain points and system use cases.
- Meaningful Roadmapping: Translate messy, fragmented cross-team operational requirements into a clean, prioritized, and logically sequenced platform product backlog that balances long-term architectural health with immediate business value.
Required Technical Experience & Qualifications- Experience: 8+ years of Product Management experience, specifically managing deep technical infrastructure, backend platform services, or data engineering products.
- Database Proficiency: Proven experience working with massive-scale distributed databases (e.g., Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB) and a strong conceptual grasp of Graph Databases (e.g., Neo4j, AWS Neptune) for relationship mapping.
- API Mastery: Deep understanding of API design principles, lifecycle management, and contract testing. Proven capability to draft API specifications and validate system behavior via API endpoints directly (no UI reliance).
- Security & Compliance Foundations: Solid architectural understanding of enterprise security protocols, including IAM, OAuth, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).
- Distributed Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with modern event-driven architectures, message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub), and workflow orchestration engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda, Airflow).
Leadership & Soft Skills- Elite Communication: Ability to articulate complex architectural tradeoffs to business stakeholders while simultaneously arguing technical nuances with principal engineers.
- Empathy-Driven Discovery: Exceptional capability to ask the right questions, uncover root-cause pain points from messy user feedback, and say "no" constructively to feature requests that do not align with platform scalability.
- Systems Thinking: A natural tendency to see how individual components intersect to form a massive, complex enterprise ecosystem.
What Will Success Look Like in the First 6 Months?- 30 Days: Map out the current topology of the ODS, ingestions pipelines, and orchestration touchpoints. Build relationships with the top 3 consuming engineering teams to understand their immediate friction points.
- 90 Days: Establish a rigorous API contract governance process within the team. Deliver a refined 2-quarter roadmap addressing critical gaps in IAM/Authorization and order fulfillment bottlenecks.
- 180 Days: Successfully launch a new high-throughput data pipeline or orchestration flow that measurably reduces multi-system order fulfillment latency while adhering to zero-trust authorization principles.
Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
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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