SeniorPrincipal Product Manager Connectivity Observability Remote United States or EMEA timezone

Job Description

Isovalent is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. The flagship technology, Cilium, is the choice of leading global organizations, including Adobe, AWS, Capital One, Datadog, GitLab, Google, and many more. Isovalent has headquarters in Cupertino, CA (US) and Zurich, Switzerland (EU) and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google, M12 (Microsoft), Grafana Labs and Cisco Investments.

The Community you will join:

Are you interested in working with the global open source community and enterprises worldwide to revolutionize network and application visibility using eBPF technology? We are looking for a Senior/Principal Product Manager, Connectivity Observability who is passionate about empowering customers with powerful visibility into the health of connectivity between modern API-driven workloads on Kubernetes. With this role, you’ll help guide our contributions to open source Cilium, which has become the default networking solution for Kubernetes distributions from industry giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as to our Isovalent Cilium Enterprise product.

About the role:

As the first Senior/Principal Product Manager, Connectivity Observability at Isovalent, you are the voice of the customer inside Isovalent. You will lead the vision and roadmap for connectivity observability solutions at Isovalent, giving customers rich eBPF-powered visibility into the health, performance, and failures of connectivity between applications, without sidecars. If you:

• have learned the hard way that “It’s always DNS”.
• have a deep understanding of L2-L7 network protocols, and how they can break
• love creating observability workflows that help users quickly root cause issues.
• have a desire to work alongside the most knowledgeable eBPF engineers in the world and build expertise in this exciting technology.
• believe Kubernetes is the future of infrastructure and want to build your expertise.
• are passionate about working with (and learning from) customers.
  
  

Then this is the role for you. To learn more about the power of eBPF-powered connectivity observability, please read our blog or try our Hands-on Lab.

A typical day:

• Work with customers to understand the challenges they face related to the health, performance, and failures of network connectivity for applications running on Kubernetes.
• Define the product’s vision, build a roadmap, and write product requirements by utilizing your expertise in infrastructure observability tools and hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world network connectivity issues in large-scale environments.
• Work closely with engineering on all the trade-offs involved with how we build the product, from understanding performance and scalability impacts of various designs to weighing in on product usability and workflows.
• Stay abreast of the competitive landscape, mastering industry trends, insights, and best practices, while actively sharing this knowledge with the team and stakeholders.
• Work with marketing to help clearly articulate the value and ROI for a new feature, helping to create demos, slides, and other materials that help sales & customers understand the value.
• Work closely with customer success and sales to make sure that customers understand and are effectively realizing the vision of the product capabilities you have introduced.