Principal Product Manager owning DataRobot’s Kubernetes orchestration platform for AI agents and models. Defining placement, scaling, lifecycle, isolation, APIs, governance, and reliability across enterprise deployments.
Responsibilities
Own the deployment and workload API, including the resource model, lifecycle semantics, versioning, backward compatibility, and customer-facing error behavior
Define placement and capacity across nodes and accelerators, including quota, priority, and contention handling across tenants
Own autoscaling signals, cold-start and scale-to-zero economics, headroom policy, and cost-versus-latency trade-offs
Own agent runtime decisions involving execution location, duration, isolation, tool calls, and state persistence through restarts or evictions
Define ingress, routing, request-aware load balancing, tenancy boundaries, and private connectivity for model and agent endpoints
Own governance and audit capabilities covering deployments, invocations, policies, access control, and audit durability
Define metering, quota, tenant attribution, inference packaging, and pricing
Own reliability SLOs, error budgets, and operational diagnostics for degraded deployments
Hold the roadmap for the workload and agent runtime layer across two engineering pods
Align with product teams building on top of the platform
Operate through design reviews, API contracts, and production data
Requirements
6+ years in product management for infrastructure, developer platforms, or cloud services
At least 3 years working on Kubernetes-based or distributed systems products
Principal candidates bring 9+ years of experience and have owned a platform layer used by other product teams
Deep technical understanding of GPU and accelerator behavior, including topology-aware placement, fractional and time-sliced sharing, MIG, device plugins, driver and container-runtime plumbing, memory constraints, and utilization economics
Deep technical understanding of Kubernetes, including the API server and scheduler, controllers and CRDs, operators, admission and RBAC, device plugins, resource requests and limits, node pools, and pod scheduling failures
Multi-tenancy experience, including isolation models, noisy neighbors, quota and fairness, and security-review-ready tenancy designs
Experience owning a public or platform API
Technical writing and prototyping ability, including documentation, deep dives, public posts, API references, or working prototypes
Comfort operating with matrixed engineering teams and no direct reports
BS or MS in Computer Science or a closely related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience as a software, platform, or infrastructure engineer
Nice to have: service networking depth, modern serving stacks such as vLLM, long-running and agentic workload patterns, customer-managed/air-gapped/sovereign deployments, regulated-industry experience, and CNCF or open-source contribution
Ability to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, agents connected to real services, or other working tools independently
Benefits
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Flexible Time Off Program
Paid Holidays
Paid Parental Leave
Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Competitive pay
Reasonable accommodations for applicants with physical and mental disabilities
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