About the Job
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Intern...
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution ...
At Cloudflare, our mission is to build a better Internet by giving customers control on they might introduce configuration changes so that they are safe, reliable, and predictable at scale.
Key Responsibilities
As a member of a growing team of infrastructure product managers your responsibilities include:
Represent the customer, be it internal or external. Be the champion and voice of customers. Build intimate, personal customer relationships. Bring the customer's voice into the creation process.
Develop the product vision for your area. Ensure that your vision can work not just for your current set of customers, but for 10 or even 100 times your current set.
Evangelize the vision so that all stakeholders are aligned, have context and understand where we are going.
Make data-driven roadmap decisions. Make tough tactical prioritization decisions based off of data you collect, curate, and disseminate. Build trust with stakeholders by ensuring that your roadmap is understandable and sensible based on the data you present.
Measure success. Own the measures used to define success for your product. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses.
Author use cases and prioritize requirements. Translate observations and customer feedback into a prioritized product backlog. Author use cases based on specific real-world product applications and extrapolate detailed product requirements for the scenarios.
Collaborate across teams. We win or lose as a team. Product managers play a critical role in creating alignment between engineering teams and stakeholders. A collaborative attitude is essential to the job.
Required Skills & Abilities
The ideal candidate is customer-focused, data-driven, methodical and thrives in a goal-oriented and data-driven environment. You have a deep technical understanding of the observability space and outstanding communication and collaboration skills. You are able to work with a diverse group, get consensus, and drive the product forward. You are execution focused, you emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details. You have a passion for building frameworks that scale massively and make it easy for all teams to get the most out of data as you.
4+ years of previous product management experience
Domain expertise in making deployment decisions based on data. You have been there, done that as either an architect or product owner for safe change or very closely related technology space
Distributed systems experience that allows you to drive the scaling strategy for deployment as our scale grows both on volume and number of internal customers supporting.
Experience presenting new products and features to customers – whether as a developer, analyst or product manager. You are enthusiastic about taking something you have helped build and sharing it with the world
Strong customer and stakeholder empathy. You must be the voice of engineering, customers, support, or ops at any given time. You must be able to channel many points of view into a strategic roadmap and deliverables that provide elegant solutions to all requirements.
Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational and analytical skills
Demonstrated ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders
Experience working with large and complex data sets (SQL, Postgres, Prometheus, etc.). You are skilled at proving points with data and can quickly show others how to do so.
Experience with telemetry pipelines (Metrics/Traces) and a very good understanding of modern observability platforms
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to all audiences
BS/MS in a technology- or business-related field
Experience with deployment platforms, release engineering, progressive delivery, feature flags, GitOps, IaC, or incident management.
Background in networking, security, CDN, edge computing, observability, or large-scale SaaS environments.
Hands-on experience with APIs, CLIs, telemetry tools, or scripting (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript).
Experience building platform capabilities adopted by multiple product teams.
Experience working with enterprise customers subject to strict change-management, compliance, or data residency mandates.
A successful Product Manager will establish Safe Change as an adopted, trusted platform capability across Cloudflare. First-year success includes:
A clear product strategy and roadmap for Safe Customer Change, aligned with internal rollout and control plane initiatives.
Shipped customer capabilities for previewing and staging rollouts, backed by measurable adoption and safety metrics.
Strong cross-functional partnerships with product and engineering teams integrating safe-change capabilities.
A clear trajectory from near-term safety tooling to core control plane features (versioning, rollback, segmentation, data residency).
Measurable reduction in operational risk, redundant tooling, and execution ambiguity across change workflows.
