Product Manager - Foundation Engineering

Addepar, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 158,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Addepar, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager to own the roadmap for Observability and Compute/Network within the Foundation Engineering group.

You will define how engineers understand system health through metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and on-call tooling, while guiding provisioning, container orchestration, networking, and cost management. Collaborate with engineering and security teams, translate reliability risks into prioritized work, build self-service tooling, and stay current with

Qualifications

• Prior product management experience owning infrastructure-facing products.
• Ability to define a roadmap and deliver infrastructure capabilities.
• Fluency in observability or compute/network domains with informed prioritization.
• Track record managing infrastructure/platform product development with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Prioritize investments based on reliability, security, and cost.
• Experience evaluating or driving adoption of observability platforms or tooling.
• Familiarity with SRE practices: SLOs, incident management, etc.
• Familiarity with regulated industries such as financial services.
• Experience driving infrastructure adoption and self-service models.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the roadmap for Observability and Compute/Network teams.
• Balance reliability, security, needs of developers, and cost in the roadmap.
• Define and track outcomes (SLOs, MTTR/MTTD) and prioritize investments.
• Drive self-service tooling: dashboards and provisioning via secure paths.
• Partner with ISR to translate security findings into priorities.
• Gather feedback via incident retrospectives and on-call surveys.
• Represent roadmaps to leadership and stakeholders; communicate tradeoffs.
• Monitor OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, and cloud networking trends.

Skills

Observability knowledge

SRE tooling

Infrastructure roadmapping

Cross-functional collaboration

Reliability optimization

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Who We Are

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,500 firms in 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $10 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and levels of complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, São Paulo, London, Edinburgh, Geneva, Warsaw, Dubai, Pune and Singapore.

The Role

We're hiring a Product Manager to own the roadmap for the Observability and Compute/Network teams within Addepar's Foundation Engineering organization. This is a foundational infrastructure role: you'll define and drive the roadmap for how engineers understand the health of their systems (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, on‑call tooling, SLOs) and for the compute and networking substrate their services run on (provisioning, container orchestration, networking, security posture, capacity planning, and cost). You'll work closely with the rest of the Foundation Engineering group to translate reliability risk, infrastructure constraints, and platform strategy into a prioritized, outcome‑driven roadmap. This role reports to product leadership within Developer Platform and partners day to day with engineering leadership for Observability and Compute/Network.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship (for example, employment‑based visas such as H-1B, F-1/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve the product roadmap for the Observability and Compute/Network teams, spanning metrics/logging/tracing platforms, alerting and on‑call tooling, SLO and error‑budget frameworks, dashboards, compute provisioning, container orchestration, networking, service mesh, capacity planning, and infrastructure cost management.
• Partner with engineering leads across Foundation Engineering to balance reliability and security risks, developer needs, capacity constraints, and cost, translating those tradeoffs into clearly scoped and sequenced investments.
• Define and track outcomes across reliability, performance, developer experience, and cost—for example, SLO attainment, time to detect and restore service, self‑service adoption, provisioning lead time, and infrastructure cost per unit—and use them to prioritize investment.
• Drive the self‑service agenda: make instrumentation, dashboards, and compute/network provisioning available through paved paths that are secure and policy‑compliant by default, so teams get visibility and capacity without manual tickets or one‑off configurations.
• Partner with the Information Security and Risk (ISR) team to translate security requirements and risk findings into roadmap priorities, including secure defaults, access controls, auditability, and risk‑based vulnerability remediation across observability and compute/network platforms.
• Gather and synthesize feedback from engineering teams across the organization (via incident retrospectives, on‑call surveys, and direct engagement) to identify visibility and infrastructure gaps and translate them into roadmap priorities.
• Represent the Observability and Compute/Network teams' roadmaps to platform leadership, product stakeholders, and cross‑functional partners; communicate tradeoffs, sequencing, and progress clearly.
• Monitor industry trends in observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog) and compute/network infrastructure (Kubernetes, service mesh, cloud networking, cost optimization) to inform build‑vs‑buy and roadmap decisions.

Who You Are

Prior product management experience, ideally owning infrastructure‑facing products (observability, SRE tooling, cloud compute, or networking platforms).

Demonstrated ability to define a product roadmap and deliver infrastructure capabilities, translating ambiguous reliability and capacity problems into scoped, prioritized work.

Working technical fluency in observability (metrics, logs, distributed tracing, SLOs/error budgets) or compute and networking (cloud compute, containers/Kubernetes, networking), with the ability to build fluency across both domains and make informed prioritization decisions with engineering partners.

Track record of managing product development for infrastructure or platform capabilities with multiple engineering stakeholders and competing priorities.

Strong communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills — able to align engineering leads, platform leadership, and product engineering teams around a shared roadmap.

Ability to prioritize investments based on reliability, security, and cost. (e.g., MTTD/MTTR, SLO attainment, vulnerability remediation SLAs, infrastructure cost efficiency).

Experience evaluating, delivering, or driving adoption of observability platforms (Sumo Logic, Wavefront, Sentry, or similar) or compute/network tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud‑provider networking or cost‑management tools).

Familiarity with SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and on‑call process design.

Familiarity with financial services or other regulated‑industry engineering environments.

Experience driving infrastructure adoption and self‑service models across a large, distributed engineering organization.

Experience partnering with globally distributed engineering teams across time zones.

Compensation

Addepar takes a market‑based approach to pay. A successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on the role, job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for this role within the United States.

Compensation for this role includes base salary + bonus + equity + benefits.

Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Base Salary Range

Base Salary Range $158,000 - $248,000 USD

Our Values

• Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
• Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
• Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
• Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.