Infra Platform PM: Scale Compute, Reliability & Cost

Cssmerge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and disability

Pet insurance discount

401(k)

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Job summary

Atoms is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Product Manager to lead strategy for internal infrastructure teams, overseeing a complex ecosystem from Core Compute (Kubernetes) to in‑house storage primitives and security platforms. You will drive roadmaps, ensure reliability, and optimize costs at scale.

You’ll collaborate with engineering leadership to align product development with long‑term architecture while championing developer velocity and efficient operations.

Qualifications

• Technical Fluency: A strong preference for candidates with a background in engineering in the infrastructure space.
• Scale Experience: Demonstrated success in product management at well-known, large-scale tech companies or high-growth infrastructure-focused startups.
• Product Rigor: A background in translating technical requirements into high-impact features. Strong judgment in balancing roadmap ambitions with the operational health, stability, and maintainability of the platform.
• Data-driven decision-making: Comfort with metrics such as SLOs, adoption, and cost efficiency, and a track record of using them to drive prioritization.
• Bar Raiser Mentality: A desire to challenge the status quo, championing operational excellence, and pushing teams to innovate faster.
• Communication across altitudes: The ability to go deep with engineers on architecture while also articulating the business value of infrastructure investments to executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive Product Strategy: Own the roadmap for our internal services and platforms, including Core Compute (Kubernetes), Networking (Service Mesh/Istio), extensive in‑house storage primitives (Postgres, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, CRDB, etc.), DevEx/Observab/Costs platforms, Data and ML platforms, Security Platform.
• Champion Developer Velocity: Reduce friction by building and maintaining best‑in‑class developer experiences, including monorepo build systems and automated release pipelines.
• Enforce Reliability: Define and implement reliability standards across our stack to ensure high uptime and system stability for groups operating on our infrastructure.
• Optimize for Efficiency: Build and manage tools for cost attribution and optimization to ensure our infrastructure scales efficiently with our business.
• Pioneer New Domains: Spearhead infrastructure initiatives for high‑growth areas
• Collaborate at Scale: Work closely with engineering leadership to align product development with long‑term technical architecture.

Skills

Technical Fluency

Scale Experience

Product Rigor

Data-driven decisions

Bar Raiser

Cross-functional Communication

Job description

Atoms is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Product Manager to lead strategy for internal infrastructure teams, overseeing a complex ecosystem from Core Compute (Kubernetes) to in‑house storage primitives and security platforms. You will drive roadmaps, ensure reliability, and optimize costs at scale.

You’ll collaborate with engineering leadership to align product development with long‑term architecture while championing developer velocity and efficient operations.