Senior Product Manager,Cluster Management

• We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to spearhead the development of solutions that empower customers to deploy, manage, and maintain their CockroachDB clusters with ease across diverse environments through the creation of Kubernetes-native and non-Kubernetes tooling that works effortlessly with major cloud providers, self-hosted data centers and even hybrid cloud environments.
• By focusing on user-friendly, robust tools that simplify complex tasks such as deploying, scaling, and upgrading CockroachDB s stateful distributed system, youll unlock customer s ability to quickly and seamlessly grow their usage of CockroachDB and directly contribute to rapid market growth. Your innovative solutions will help customers overcome operational challenges, allowing them to fully leverage CockroachDBs scalability, fault tolerance, and consistent performance across global deployments.
• You will primarily partner with the Cluster Management engineering team based in Bangalore but will also work closely with other DB and Cloud engineering teams to execute your strategy.

• Define and prioritize the product roadmap for cluster management tools, balancing customer needs, market trends, and business objectives
• Lead the prioritization, UX definition and strategy for CockroachDBs cluster management tools, including both Kubernetes-native (helm chart and operator) and non-Kubernetes solutions
• Collaborate closely with the fleet management and cloud admin teams to ensure seamless integration and cohesive user experience across all deployment scenarios
• Develop comprehensive best practices for CockroachDB deployment, management, and maintenance across various environments and work with the documentation and training teams to develop educational resources
• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to gather requirements, validate features, and iterate on solutions
• Coordinate with marketing and sales teams to effectively communicate the value proposition of CockroachDBs cluster management capabilities

• CS Degree, or equivalent software engineering or solutions engineering background, with a focus on technology deployment, infrastructure management, SRE, SysAdmin or DevOps
• Minimum 6 years of total work experience and 4+ years as a PM working with tech infrastructure, enterprise or SaaS products
• Experience with IaaS, PaaS, IaC and Kubernetes
• Proven ability to partner with senior engineering teams, lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects across multiple time zones and customer markets to deliver customer-facing products
• Background working directly with medium-sized to large enterprises to understand and address problems, set proper timelines and expectations around feature delivery to internal stakeholders and external teams
• A collaborative approach and an eagerness to partner with other product teams and all other functions in the company, such as Legal, Finance, Marketing, and Sales

Nice to Have

• Experience working with stateful distributed systems or databases

• 100% health insurance coverage (for you and your dependents!)
• Paid parental leave (with baby bucks)
• Flexible time off