Product Manager, Safe Change & Control Plane
Hybrid · Austin, TX · London · 4+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Hybrid · Austin, TX · London
About Cloudflare
- At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
- Available Locations: London or Austin
- At Cloudflare, our mission is to build a better Internet by giving customers control on they might introduce configuration changes so that they are safe, reliable, and predictable at scale.
- We are looking for a Product Manager to lead Safe Change for Cloudflare’s control plane. In this role, you will define how customers preview, stage, roll out, monitor, and recover from configuration changes. You will also shape platform foundations that enable internal teams to deploy changes with higher confidence, stronger guardrails, and lower operational risk.
- Cloudflare’s control plane converts dashboard and API changes into global network configurations. Today’s enterprise customers expect robust change-management features: deployment previews, gradual rollouts, quick rollbacks, versioning, traffic segmentation, data residency, auditability, and verification of applied state.
About the role
- Cloudflare is looking for a Product Manager to lead Safe Change for the company's control plane, defining how customers preview, stage, roll out, monitor, and recover from configuration changes.
- The role involves owning a high-leverage product domain spanning distributed systems, reliability, developer experience, and enterprise governance.
- Working closely with engineering and product leaders across the platform, you will help turn proven deployment safety patterns into reusable platform primitives.
Responsibilities
- Represent the customer, be it internal or external, and bring the customer's voice into the creation process.
- Develop the product vision for your area to work for current and future scale.
- Evangelize the vision so that all stakeholders are aligned, have context, and understand where the product is going.
- Make data-driven roadmap decisions and tough tactical prioritization decisions.
- Measure success by owning metrics defined at inception and tracked throughout the product lifecycle.
- Author use cases and prioritize requirements based on specific real-world product applications.
- Collaborate across teams to create alignment between engineering teams and stakeholders.
Requirements
- 4+ years of previous product management experience
- Domain expertise in making deployment decisions based on data, as either an architect or product owner for safe change or a closely related technology space
- Distributed systems experience that allows you to drive the scaling strategy for deployment as scale grows
- Experience presenting new products and features to customers
- Strong customer and stakeholder empathy
- Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational, and analytical skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead, drive consensus, and deliver in a matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders
- Experience working with large and complex data sets (SQL, Postgres, Prometheus, etc.)
- Experience with telemetry pipelines (Metrics/Traces) and an understanding of modern observability platforms
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to all audiences
Preferred qualifications
- BS/MS in a technology- or business-related field
- Experience with deployment platforms, release engineering, progressive delivery, feature flags, GitOps, IaC, or incident management
- Background in networking, security, CDN, edge computing, observability, or large-scale SaaS environments
- Hands-on experience with APIs, CLIs, telemetry tools, or scripting (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript)
- Experience building platform capabilities adopted by multiple product teams
- Experience working with enterprise customers subject to strict change-management, compliance, or data residency mandates
Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace
Skills
- SQL
- Postgres
- Prometheus
- Python
- Go
- JavaScript
- GitOps
- IaC
