MENLO PARK — Meta Platforms is undergoing a major transition in its core engineering leadership, with longtime Infrastructure Head and Co-Head of Engineering Santosh Janardhan announcing his departure after a 17-year tenure at the company.
Janardhan, who joined Meta in 2009 and previously led database and storage engineering teams at YouTube, Google, and PayPal, communicated his decision to employees via an internal memo on November 11, 2026. He will remain with the company through the end of the first quarter of 2027 to oversee a structured leadership handover. David Brown, a former Senior Vice-President at Amazon Web Services (AWS) who joined Meta in July 2026, has been named to succeed Janardhan at the helm of Meta’s infrastructure organization.
