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Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-07 → 2026-07-14

Core

Own the platform roadmap, define success metrics, and drive adoption for internal developer platforms and tools.

Role type

Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering

Builds

Internal developer platforms (IDP), developer tools, and developer experience (DevEx) products

Domain

Software Engineering / Platform Engineering

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Roadmap strategy and prioritization, Product analytics and experimentation, Generative AI and agent-based prototyping, Developer relations (DevRel), Data-driven decision making, Technical architecture reasoning

Preferred skills

Experience with internal developer platforms (IDP), Building prototypes and tools personally, Stakeholder management with leadership and partner orgs

Technologies

Generative AI, Agents, Code, Dashboards

Responsibilities

Aggregate demand and sequence the platform roadmap, Define and instrument success metrics, Prototype tools and analyses using AI and code, Drive adoption through onboarding and feedback loops, Partner with architects on technical tradeoffs, Make data-backed cases to leadership

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC

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## About the role - Own the platform roadmap across the teams we serve: aggregate demand, set priorities, sequence what ships, and make the calls on what we won't build. - Own the measurement: define what "faster and safer" means, instrument it, and report the honest signal, including when the platform isn't earning adoption yet. - Prototype and build your own dashboards, tools, and analyses with agents and code, so you can test an idea or read the data without waiting on someone else. - Run the adoption motion: onboarding, docs, developer relations (DevRel), and the feedback loop that turns a useful platform into an adopted one. - Partner with the architects and engineers on what to build and why. You own the roadmap; they own the technical how. - Stay close to the teams we serve: learn their real workflows, where they lose time, and the business they're driving, and weigh the whole base fairly in what we prioritize. - Make the case to leadership and partner orgs with evidence: what the platform changed and what it costs. - A platform-as-a-product PM who builds, a technical product manager at heart. ## Requirements - You've owned a developer-facing or internal product, and you prototype and analyze yourself rather than delegating every artifact. - AI-native. You use generative AI and agents to build — prototypes, tools, analyses, shipped product — not slideware about AI. - Fluent with data: product analytics and experimentation. You define the metric that matters, instrument it, and stay honest when it says the thing isn't working. - Comfortable that adoption is earned, never mandated, and energized by earning it on the merits rather than assuming it. - Technical enough to earn engineers' trust: you can read the code, reason about the architecture, and hold your own with a senior architect on tradeoffs. - Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years in product management or software development — OR equivalent experience. - Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. ## Nice to have - Hands-on experience using generative AI and agents to build (prototypes, tools, or shipped product). - Experience owning a developer-facing or platform product (an internal developer platform (IDP), developer tools, or developer experience / DevEx) as the product owner. - A track record of making product decisions from data: defining the metrics, instrumenting them, and driving the outcomes.
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