Product Manager - Foundation Engineering

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Remote · USD 158,000-248,000 · Remote · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

Workplace
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
USD 158,000-248,000 · Base salary
Visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship not offered

About the role

  • The Product Manager for Foundation Engineering will own the roadmap for Observability and Compute/Network teams.
  • This role involves defining how engineers understand system health and managing the compute and networking substrate for services.
  • The position requires translating reliability risks, infrastructure constraints, and platform strategy into an outcome-driven roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the product roadmap for observability, alerting, on-call tooling, compute provisioning, and container orchestration.
  • Partner with engineering leads to balance reliability, security, developer needs, and cost.
  • Define and track outcomes across reliability, performance, developer experience, and cost.
  • Drive a self-service agenda to provide secure, policy-compliant paved paths for infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with Information Security and Risk teams to translate security requirements into roadmap priorities.
  • Synthesize feedback from engineering teams to identify infrastructure gaps.
  • Represent roadmaps to platform leadership and cross-functional partners.
  • Monitor industry trends to inform build-vs-buy and roadmap decisions.

Requirements

  • Prior product management experience, ideally owning infrastructure-facing products.
  • Demonstrated ability to define a product roadmap and deliver infrastructure capabilities.
  • Working technical fluency in observability or compute and networking.
  • Track record of managing product development for infrastructure or platform capabilities with multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Ability to prioritize investments based on reliability, security, and cost.
  • Experience driving infrastructure adoption and self-service models.
  • Experience partnering with globally distributed engineering teams.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience evaluating or driving adoption of observability platforms like Sumo Logic, Wavefront, or Sentry.
  • Experience with compute/network tooling such as Kubernetes or Terraform.
  • Familiarity with SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
  • Familiarity with financial services or other regulated-industry engineering environments.

Benefits

  • Base salary
  • Bonus
  • Equity

Workplace

  • Remote position based in the United States.

Skills

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Service Mesh
  • Cloud Networking
  • Cost Optimization

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Product Manager - Foundation Engineering

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