Platform Product Lead - APIs, Console & Developer Tools

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance premiums covered

401(k) match

Professional development reimbursement

Holidays + PTO

Sabbatical every 5 years

Remote office stipend

Internet reimbursement

Gym reimbursement

Wellable subscription

Job summary

Vultr seeks a highly skilled Senior Product Manager to own the Platform product suite—the foundations, control plane, and developer tools for provisioning, managing, and governing infrastructure. You will collaborate with Compute, Network, Storage, Security, and AI teams to ensure API-first and Console-ready launches for rapid growth.

The role requires deep platform fluency, strong product instincts, and a track record of shipping developer-facing tools with measurable impact in a cloud

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, infrastructure‑as‑code, or API products.
• Deep understanding of platform engineering — APIs, CLIs, SDKs, or developer tools at scale.
• Experience defining product strategy and roadmaps for platform or developer-facing products at scale.
• Experience with cloud account management and governance products — billing, IAM, audit logging, sub‑accounts, or equivalent enterprise access control systems.
• Strong technical background — ability to engage with engineering on API design, authentication flows, rate limiting, SDK architecture, and frontend performance.
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code ecosystems — Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Track record of shipping developer-facing products with measurable impact on adoption, task completion time, or developer satisfaction.
• Experience with cloud provider platforms — AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, or similar.
• Experience with API lifecycle management — versioning, deprecation, backward compatibility, and developer communication.
• Experience working across cross-functional teams (engineering, design, marketing, sales) in a fast‑paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Platform product suite roadmap covering developer surfaces and account-level capabilities.
• Define platform and developer experience strategy aligned to infrastructure roadmap, reliability goals, and customer needs.
• Drive customer-facing platform surface across APIs, Console UI, CLI, SDKs.
• Own the API as a product — define versioning, deprecation, rate limiting, pagination, error handling, and authentication flows.
• Own the Console as a product — drive the web-based control plate experience with design collaboration.
• Own the Terraform provider, CLI, and SDKs — ensure tooling stays current with API changes.
• Own the account management and governance product surface — Billing, IAM, Sub Accounts, Audit Logs, and Admin tools.
• Own the operational product surface — Regions, Instance Templates, Custom Images, Startup Scripts, SSH Keys, and Support Tickets.
• Work closely with engineering on tradeoffs across API design, authentication flows, rate limiting, caching strategies, SDK generation, CLI architecture, and Console frontend performance.
• Build products for two customer profiles: digital-native builders and enterprise adopters.
• Ensure new infrastructure and platform launches are API-first and Console-ready by design through partnerships with compute, network, storage, security, and AI teams.
• Define and measure platform health metrics — API availability, latency, error rates, SDK adoption, Console task completion rates, CLI active usage, and developer satisfaction.
• Stay current on modern platform engineering trends, including API design patterns, SDK generation, developer portals, infrastructure-as-code, identity and access management, and the evolving state of cloud developer experience.

Skills

Platform engineering

API design

SDKs

CLI tooling

Developer experience

Cross-functional teams

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform provider

REST APIs

CLI

SDKs

Job description

Vultr seeks a highly skilled Senior Product Manager to own the Platform product suite—the foundations, control plane, and developer tools for provisioning, managing, and governing infrastructure. You will collaborate with Compute, Network, Storage, Security, and AI teams to ensure API-first and Console-ready launches for rapid growth.

The role requires deep platform fluency, strong product instincts, and a track record of shipping developer-facing tools with measurable impact in a cloud