Senior PM – Cloud Platform APIs & Developer Tools at Vultr

Vultr; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (company-paid)

401(k) with match

Professional Development Reimbursement

Paid Holidays + PTO + Sabbatical

Remote office stipend $500 (first year

Internet reimbursement up to $75/mo

Gym membership reimbursement

Job summary

Vultr seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the Platform product suite—the REST APIs, Console, CLI, SDKs, Terraform provider, and governance tools that customers use to provision and manage cloud infrastructure. You will partner with Compute, Network, Storage, Security, and AI teams to ensure API-first and Console-ready launches to a remote-friendly workforce.

The role demands deep platform engineering fluency, API design, and a customer-first DX mindset, with visibility across a fast-growing

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or API products.
• Experience shipping APIs, CLIs, SDKs, and developer tools at scale.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, design, marketing, and sales.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Platform product suite roadmap for developer surfaces and account-level capabilities.
• Define platform and DX strategy aligned with infrastructure roadmap and enterprise needs.
• Drive API, Console, CLI, and SDKs to ensure consistent, complete developer experience.
• Own the Terraform provider, CLI, and SDKs to stay current with API changes.
• Own account governance surfaces like Billing, IAM, Audit Logs, and Admin tools.
• Collaborate with engineering on API design, authentication, rate limiting, and frontend performance.

Skills

API PM

DX leadership

Platform engineering

Cross-functional

Cloud infra

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

SDKs

CLIs

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Job description

Senior PM – Cloud Platform APIs & Developer Tools at Vultr — Remote

Compensation vs. Market: At $180K–$200K annually, this is competitive but not at the top of the Senior PM band at major cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure Senior PMs can reach $250K+ with equity). However, Vultr's recent $3.5B valuation and private equity financing suggest potential for meaningful upside if equity or bonuses are offered — worth clarifying in negotiation.

Skills You'll Build: This role develops a rare and highly marketable skillset — owning platform and developer experience (DX) products is increasingly critical as every company becomes "API-first." Specific skills include:

• API product management and lifecycle strategy
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, SDKs, CLIs)
• Enterprise IAM and governance product design
• Cross-platform developer experience (DX) leadership

Career Trajectory: This role is a strong stepping stone to VP of Product or CPO at a cloud-native or developer-tools company. Ownership of an entire platform suite at a $3.5B company is resume gold for future leadership roles at AWS, Cloudflare, HashiCorp, or similar.

Green Flags: Broad ownership with high visibility, self-funded founder-led culture (suggesting autonomy), and a fast-growing independent cloud provider differentiating against hyperscalers — all signal real impact potential.

Watch For: As a privately-held company without public equity, total compensation transparency matters. Confirm equity structure, vesting schedule, and any bonus plan during the interview process. The breadth of ownership (15+ product surfaces) is exciting but could also indicate a lean team — clarify headcount and resourcing before accepting.

Who We Are

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024, Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.

Vultr Cares

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting.
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year.
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan.
• Increased PTO at 3-year and 10-year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year.
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year.
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month.
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month.

The Role

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Product Manager to own the Platform product suite — the foundational capabilities, control plane, and developer tools that customers use to provision, manage, automate, and govern their infrastructure. This includes Vultr's REST APIs, Console, CLI, SDKs, Terraform provider, Billing, Account Activity, Audit Logs, Regions, IAM, Sub Accounts, Admin, Instance Templates, Custom Images, Startup Scripts, SSH Keys, and Support Tickets.

Together, these products form the platform layer that every Vultr customer interacts with and that every infrastructure product depends on to reach customers. The ideal candidate brings deep technical fluency in platform engineering, API design, and developer experience, combined with a strong product instinct for building tools that make infrastructure feel effortless.

This is a highly visible role in a high-growth technology company, requiring close partnership with Compute, Network, Storage, Security, and AI teams to ensure every new infrastructure launch is programmable, governed, and intuitive from day one.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Platform product suite roadmap — covering developer surfaces (REST APIs, Console, CLI, SDKs, Terraform provider, ISOs) and account-level capabilities (Billing, Account Activity, Audit Logs, Regions, IAM, Sub Accounts, Admin, Instance Templates, Custom Images, Startup Scripts, SSH Keys, and Support Tickets).
• Define Vultr's platform and developer experience strategy aligned to infrastructure roadmap, reliability goals, and the needs of both digital-native builders and enterprise customers adopting the cloud.
• Drive the customer-facing platform surface across APIs, Console UI, CLI, and SDKs — ensuring consistency, completeness, and a coherent experience across all touchpoints.
• Own the API as a product — define versioning strategy, deprecation policy, rate limiting, pagination, error handling, and authentication flows that make Vultr's API a first-class developer experience.
• Own the Console as a product — drive the web-based control plane experience, working with design and frontend engineering to make complex infrastructure operations intuitive and efficient.
• Own the Terraform provider, CLI, and SDKs — ensure our infrastructure-as-code and programmatic tooling stays current with API changes and represents best-in-class developer tooling practices.
• Own the account management and governance product surface — Billing, IAM, Sub Accounts, Audit Logs, and Admin tools that give customers control over access, spending, and compliance posture.
• Own the operational product surface — Regions, Instance Templates, Custom Images, Startup Scripts, SSH Keys, and Support Tickets that customers use daily to manage and automate their infrastructure at scale.
• Work closely with engineering on technical 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 who want speed and simplicity, and enterprise adopters who need IAM, audit trails, sub-account governance, and programmatic control.
• Ensure new infrastructure and platform launches are API-first and Console-ready by design through strong partnership 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.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, infrastructure-as-code, or API products.
• Deep understanding of platform engineering — you’ve designed, shipped, or maintained 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 — you’ve worked on or extensively used AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, or similar. You know what good and bad cloud UX feels like.
• 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).

Compensation

$180,000 – $200,000

Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.

Inclusion & Privacy

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. Vultr will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable laws and will not conduct a background check until after an offer of employment has been extended and accepted.

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