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Staff Product Manager, Cloud Networking

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231500.00 - 272000.00 USD / Year
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We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own the platform strategy for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Define frameworks and standards that other PMs, designers, and engineers use to evaluate networking decisions
  • Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership
  • Expand scope and create optionality
  • Develop the product team
  • Build senior stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, sales, field, legal, and security, then present the platform vision to executive leadership to secure organizational investment
  • Define and own success metrics at the platform level
  • Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product
  • Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope
  • Deep fluency in cloud networking concepts: PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, DNS, security groups, CIDR/IP management, and their trade-offs across AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements
  • Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction
  • Strong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators
  • Practices AI-native product management
  • Experience developing PMs and raising the bar on product thinking
  • Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking
  • Familiarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation
  • Exposure to network traffic metering, data transfer billing attribution, cost transparency tooling, or pricing and packaging strategy for cloud infrastructure products
  • Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment
  • An MBA degree is a plus

Nice to have:

  • Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking
  • Familiarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation
  • Exposure to network traffic metering, data transfer billing attribution, cost transparency tooling, or pricing and packaging strategy for cloud infrastructure products
  • Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment
  • An MBA degree is a plus
What we offer:
  • Remote-First Work
  • Robust Insurance Benefits
  • Flexible Time Away
  • The Best Teammates
  • Experience Ambassadors
  • Open and Honest Culture
  • Well-Being and Growth
  • Offers Equity

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 20, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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