Technical Product Manager

Traefik Labs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Traefik Labs is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the direction of a cloud-native networking and API platform portfolio. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, shaping priorities with engineering, and turning complex platform needs into clear, valuable products.

You will collaborate with developers and infrastructure teams to define strategies, roadmaps, and initiatives, while balancing usability, security, and governance for scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong technical fluency and ability to work credibly with software engineers and infrastructure teams.
• Experience owning product decisions for developer tools, infrastructure, platforms, APIs, or similar technical products.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
• Sound judgment about scope, trade-offs, sequencing, and distinguishing customer requests from durable product opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate product strategy, priorities, and roadmaps across networking and API platform capabilities.
• Work closely with engineering and other product managers to turn customer problems into well-scoped initiatives.
• Engage with technical users, including infrastructure engineers and open-source practitioners, to understand workflows and unmet needs.
• Balance usability, reliability, security, governance, and commercial impact when making product decisions.
• Contribute to product discovery, requirements, feature prioritization, and launch planning.
• Represent customer insight in discussions about API gateways, Kubernetes networking, AI infrastructure, and related platform services.

Skills

Technical fluency

Dev tools experience

Infrastructure collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Project Management Worldwide (European Hours Overlap Preferred)

Job details

Worldwide (European Hours Overlap Preferred) Eligibility

Senior Experience

Not specified Employment

About this role

Role overview

Own product direction for a portfolio of cloud-native networking, API management, security, and emerging AI gateway capabilities. This is a hands-on technical product role focused on understanding infrastructure practitioners, shaping priorities with engineering, and turning complex platform needs into clear, valuable products.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate product strategy, priorities, and roadmaps across networking and API platform capabilities.
• Work closely with engineering and other product managers to turn customer and practitioner problems into well-scoped initiatives.
• Engage with technical users, including infrastructure engineers and open-source practitioners, to understand workflows and unmet needs.
• Balance usability, reliability, security, governance, and commercial impact when making product decisions.
• Contribute to product discovery, requirements, feature prioritization, and launch planning.
• Represent customer insight in discussions about API gateways, Kubernetes networking, AI infrastructure, and related platform services.

Requirements

• Strong technical fluency and the ability to work credibly with software engineers and infrastructure teams.
• Experience owning product decisions for developer tools, infrastructure, platforms, APIs, or similarly technical products.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
• Sound judgment about scope, trade-offs, sequencing, and the difference between customer requests and durable product opportunities.
• Confidence to challenge assumptions constructively and support decisions with evidence and reasoning.
• Genuine interest in the needs of engineers, open-source users, and hands-on infrastructure practitioners.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first working model with a preference for substantial overlap with European working hours.
• Competitive base salary, meaningful equity, and full benefits.
• Regular opportunities to meet in person, plus travel to conferences, partners, and occasional customer sites.