Senior Technical Product Owner – Developer Platform

Xebia Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Xebia Group seeks a highly technical Product Owner to lead the evolution of a developer platform focused on simplifying application deployment and operations. The platform offers intuitive deployment, observability, and workflow capabilities while abstracting cloud complexity.

You will own the platform vision, drive architecture alignment with engineering, and balance technical excellence with business value, collaborating across teams to ship impactful platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Technical Product Owner or engineering leadership role.
• Proven track record owning developer-focused platform products or IDPs.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern platform engineering.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, containers, cloud networking, and infra automation.
• Solid understanding of platform architecture including multi-tenancy, control/data plane, deployment workflows, and service orchestration.
• Experience defining product strategy, owning roadmaps, prioritising initiatives, and leading discovery.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills bridging engineering and business.
• Experience making product decisions based on metrics and measurable outcomes.
• Comfortable challenging technical decisions and driving engineering best practices.
• Practical experience using AI-powered assistants to improve productivity in analysis and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Defining and owning the platform vision, strategy, and long-term product roadmap.
• Translating developer needs and business objectives into platform capabilities and product initiatives.
• Prioritising the product backlog and driving roadmap execution based on value and impact.
• Leading product discovery, defining MVPs, and validating new platform capabilities.
• Collaborating closely with engineering teams and architects on platform evolution and technical direction.
• Participating in architectural discussions and shaping decisions on scalability, security, observability, and multi-tenancy.
• Designing intuitive developer experiences and simplifying deployment and operations workflows.
• Gathering feedback from platform users and engineering teams to improve the platform.
• Aligning technical and business stakeholders around product strategy and delivery outcomes.
• Driving platform standards and challenging technical assumptions in solution design.

Skills

Technical Product Owner

Tech Lead

Staff Engineer

Principal Engineer

Solutions Architect

IDP ownership

cloud-native architectures

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

platform architecture

multi-tenancy

product strategy & roadmaps

stakeholder management

data-driven decision making

AI-assisted delivery

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

TypeScript

Node.js

NestJS

Job description

Xebia Group seeks a highly technical Product Owner to lead the evolution of a developer platform focused on simplifying application deployment and operations. The platform offers intuitive deployment, observability, and workflow capabilities while abstracting cloud complexity.

You will own the platform vision, drive architecture alignment with engineering, and balance technical excellence with business value, collaborating across teams to ship impactful platform capabilities.