Santosh Janardhan, Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering since 2009, will leave the company in early 2027. David Brown, a former Amazon Web Services senior vice president who joined Meta in July, will take over the role.
Brown will lead Meta's infrastructure efforts as part of the Meta Compute initiative, which operates under company president Dina Powell McCormick and technical leader Daniel Gross. Janardhan said in an internal memo that "it's time to pass the baton" to Brown, who has "spent his career building and operating dependable infrastructure for a wide range of demanding workloads."
The transition comes as Meta faces investor questions about its capital spending. The company projects full-year capital expenditures between $135 billion and $145 billion. Meta reported negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion in the third quarter, leading S&P Global Ratings to downgrade the company's credit rating from AA- stable to AA- negative in late October.
Janardhan will support Brown through the first quarter of 2027 as part of the transition.