Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform

The Staff Product Manager, Compute Platform will define the strategy and roadmap for managed cloud services that help developers build, deploy, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure. This role combines developer experience, cloud platform architecture, and infrastructure economics across application hosting, serverless computing, and container registry services. You will work closely with engineering, finance, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams to deliver simple, reliable, and cost-efficient products. From improving workload utilization and pricing models to streamlining deployment workflows, your decisions will influence both customer success and platform profitability. The role offers broad product ownership, technical depth, and the opportunity to shape a growing compute platform product function. It is ideal for an experienced product leader who can connect customer needs with engineering trade-offs and measurable business outcomes

• Product management experience: At least 8 years of product management experience, with a demonstrated record of defining and launching managed cloud compute, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), serverless, or container products. Experience owning both customer-facing functionality and unit economics is especially valuable.

• Cloud platform knowledge: Strong understanding of PaaS, serverless computing, and container registry models, including buildpack-based deployments, function runtimes and triggers, concurrency, cold-start trade-offs, and OCI image building, storage, and distribution.

• Compute infrastructure fluency: Solid knowledge of cloud compute technologies, including Intel, AMD, and ARM processor architectures, virtualization and microVMs, container runtimes, and isolation models. Ability to understand how infrastructure choices affect workload density, latency, reliability, and cost.

• Cost and capacity management: Experience analyzing compute, memory, storage, and networking cost drivers, developing cost-to-serve models for multi-tenant services, and translating financial and capacity insights into pricing and utilization targets.

• Developer experience expertise: Strong instincts for creating intuitive developer products, with the ability to specify APIs, command-line interfaces, and console workflows that offer useful defaults without unnecessarily restricting advanced users.

• Data-driven decision-making: Ability to define meaningful product metrics, interpret utilization and margin dashboards alongside customer and product analytics, and adjust strategy based on measurable results.

• Technical and commercial judgment: Comfort balancing architecture decisions, customer experience, infrastructure efficiency, pricing, and profitability when making product trade-offs.

• Cross-functional leadership: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience aligning engineering, infrastructure, finance, and go-to-market teams across different locations and time zones.

• Preferred Kubernetes experience: Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes operations, workload scheduling, operators, Helm, or building products on top of Kubernetes.

• Preferred infrastructure experience: Background in IaaS or compute products, such as virtual machines, bare-metal services, capacity planning, or fleet efficiency.

• Preferred competitive product experience: Experience building, launching, or competing with services such as Heroku, Render, Fly.io, Cloud Run, Lambda, Fargate, ECR, GCR, ACR, or comparable platforms.

• Additional preferred qualifications: Familiarity with data center fundamentals, such as rack layouts, power and cooling, and network design; experience leading a product area in a new geography; or knowledge of an established cloud product portfolio.

• Location and work authorization: This is a remote role in the United States, with the requirement that candidates be located within or willing to relocate to within 60 miles of one of the designated hiring locations. Applicants should confirm their eligibility to work in the United States and any applicable sponsorship requirements.