Principal Product Manager, Api Integrations, Data

Principal Product Manager, API Integrations, Data Center Services
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

**Summary**

The Enabling Services Product Management team at Equinix is focused on empowering customers via our Data Center Services (DCS) platform and our Smart family of service offerings. As Principal Product Manager, API Integrations, you will be a crucial member of our API and Developer Ecosystem team, directly supporting partners and customers as they integrate Equinix services and data into their systems and processes.

Your primary objective will be to make Equinix a true extension of our customers’ data center monitoring and management ecosystem by enabling their consumption of our data and services via API or via third-party plug-ins. You will work closely with partners to design, develop, test and optimize plug-ins. You will work closely with customers to evaluate, design and deploy custom integrations. From these interactions you will abstract solutions for common use cases to provide as reference for future customer integrations. You should excel at understanding customer procedures and data needs and working with developers to automate procedures and integrate essential information seamlessly into customer workflows and systems.

**Responsibilities**
- Develop a deep understanding of Equinix customers’ data center information and automation needs
- Understand and be able to explain how DCS APIs can be leveraged to meet these needs
- Assess, design and develop integrations that meet customer requirement and exceed customer expectations
- Identify common use cases for integration of Equinix data and services and create standard reference content and code for partner and customer consumption
- Identify requirements for a platform that supports real-time data stream processing, event bus, data persistence, and customer defined rules
- Develop and shepherd strategic partnerships with industry leading vendors and system integrators
- Working with partners to build joint solutions that meet customer needs and market demands
- Participate in sales and marketing engagements to capture emerging market perspectives and evangelize products and joint offerings with Partners

**Qualifications**
- 10+ years in technical roles focusing on developer platforms integrations for XaaS/Cloud products/services
- Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE, Information Technology or related field of study
- Ability to be customer and partner facing and manage multiple workstreams
- Hands-on experience developing and delivering custom integrations
- Deep understanding of streaming and restful APIs and other integration patterns
- Experience with tools like Postman or ARC to test API and Web Service calls
- Experience with Kafka, Flink, Cassandra/InfluxDB
- Global experience and ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders

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.

The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are: - San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $160,000 to $273,000 - California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $153,000 to $261,000 - Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $139,000 to $237,000 Our pay ranges