Principal Product Manager – Sandboxes

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of Docker Sandboxes, including the long-term vision, roadmap, revenue, adoption, and performance metrics.

• Clearly define customer needs, workflows, challenges, and constraints related to security, performance, compatibility, and costs.

• Collaborate with developers who are creating AI agents, coding environments, CI and testing systems, and other secure isolated-execution workloads.

• Develop infrastructure products that are user-friendly and easy to adopt.

• Simplify tradeoffs involving isolation, startup time, performance, density, networking, storage, and cost into coherent product experiences.

• Direct product definition, feature prioritization, and scope in collaboration with engineering, design, security, operations, and go-to-market teams.

• Employ iterative development to hypothesize, measure adoption and impact, learn from product releases, and refine the roadmap.

• Familiarize yourself with the mission, product strategy, and technical architecture of Docker Sandboxes.

• Cultivate an understanding of developers, customers, isolated-environment use cases, and their motivations for choosing Docker.

• Influence the team roadmap and product strategy.

• Oversee team OKRs and success metrics while providing progress updates.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives that simplify and add value to secure isolated execution.

• Steer the long-term vision concerning adoption, ecosystem integration, reliability, scalability, unit economics, and ARR.

⛳️ Requirements

• Possess a strong empathy for developers and a commitment to engaging with users.

• Have prior professional experience in software engineering, ideally within systems, infrastructure, platform engineering, developer tools, or cloud environments.

• Demonstrate strong technical knowledge of sandboxes/microVMs, containers, virtualization technologies, and hypervisors.

• Understand Linux, container runtimes, orchestration, networking, storage, APIs, and cloud services.

• Have experience designing, building, or operating systems that process customer-provided, untrusted, or agent-generated code at scale.

• Be comfortable using command-line interfaces and discussing APIs, SDKs, and technical architectures.

• Have experience in developing B2B or SaaS products, or possess a background in public cloud and developer infrastructure.

• Understand software supply chains and security, including multi-tenant isolation, identity, secrets management, observability, and reliability.

• Ability to decompose complex technical challenges into manageable, user-centered features.

• Capable of articulating complex ideas clearly and communicating effectively in writing, verbally, and visually.

• Proficient in analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, defining success metrics, and prioritizing investments.

• Adopt a collaborative approach with experience in managing products from inception to scale.

• Able to work with fast-paced, distributed, cross-functional teams.

• Note that no visa sponsorship is available for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Designed as a remote-first workplace; work from home.

• Flexible working hours.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• Assigned quarterly Whaleness Days.

• Designated end-of-year Whaleness break.

• Support for home office setup.

• Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month.

• Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and ongoing education.

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.

• Equity offered to all full-time employees.

• Comprehensive medical benefits.

• Retirement benefits included.

• Paid holidays provided.

• Docker swag available.