Meta Infrastructure Head Santosh Janardhan to Step Down in Early 2027

Meta's longtime infrastructure chief and engineering co-head Santosh Janardhan announced he will step down in early 2027 after roughly 15 years with the company. Former Amazon Web Services executive David Brown, who joined Meta in July, will succeed him as the company expands data center operations and navigates heavy artificial intelligence capital spending.

• Santosh Janardhan, Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering who joined in 2009, announced in an internal memo that he will leave the company in early 2027.· 3 sources
• Former Amazon Web Services senior vice president David Brown, who joined Meta in July, will formally take over leadership of Meta's infrastructure operations.· 3 sources
• Janardhan will assist Brown with the leadership transition through the first quarter of 2027, though he did not specify reasons for stepping down.· 3 sources
• The leadership change aligns with the Meta Compute initiative, an infrastructure program led by Meta President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick and technical leader Daniel Gross.· 2 sources
• The transition occurs amid rising capital expenditures, with Meta projecting full-year capital spending between $135 billion and $145 billion alongside negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion.· 2 sources