Sr Product Manager, Technical Leader

Engineering Product Manager

As the Engineering Product Manager, you are the voice of the customer inside Isovalent. You will lead the vision and roadmap for Tetragon products and deliver rich eBPF-powered capabilities to Isovalent's full customer base.

Your Impact

Product Vision & Strategy:
Lead the vision and roadmap for Tetragon-based products, delivering advanced eBPF-powered runtime security capabilities that enable users to detect, investigate, and mitigate cloud-native threats.

Customer-Centric Innovation:
Act as the primary voice of the customer within Isovalent, engaging directly with the user base to understand their unique challenges and translate them into actionable product requirements.

Technical Growth &

Collaboration:

Collaborate with industry-leading eBPF engineers to deepen your technical expertise, driving the evolution of Kubernetes-native infrastructure security.

Sales & Pre-Sales Enablement:
Empower sales teams by providing the tools, demonstrations, and technical validation necessary to successfully articulate the value of our runtime security solutions to prospects.

Marketing & Content Leadership:
Partner with marketing to evangelize Tetragon through high-impact content, including technical blog posts, white papers, videos, and interactive labs.

Customer Success & Community Advocacy:
Support Customer Success teams in driving user adoption and represent Isovalent at industry conferences and meetups to foster the open-source eBPF and Tetragon community.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 12 years, Masters + 8 years, or PhD + 5 years of related experience in product management or cybersecurity product development.
• Experience working in Cloud Native security and Sec Ops workflows, including threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and offensive security (red/blue/purple teaming).
• Prior experience building enterprise-grade software for Fortune 500 customers, with demonstrated experience managing the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation to successful launch.
• Experience leading product strategy and roadmap development, including the ability to foster collaboration and secure buy-in from diverse stakeholders across engineering, marketing, and sales departments; along with defining and communicating a unified product vision.
• Experience in the Cloud Native security competitive landscape, coupled with strong experience driving Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies and Product-Led Growth (PLG) initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and Kubernetes Security, supported by a strong technical foundation in eBPF, Linux, and kernel concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with the broader Sec Ops tooling ecosystem, including SIEM/log collection systems (Splunk, ELK, Google Sec Ops) and IDS/IPS network security tools (Suricata, Zeek, Snort, OSSEC).
• Practical knowledge of industry security frameworks and compliance standards (MITRE ATT&CK, CIS benchmarks, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, SOC2).
• Experience designing backend systems that enable growth, such as self-service provisioning or friction-free onboarding flows.
• Proven track record building products for large enterprise customers and hyperscalers, including navigating complex compliance requirements and managing global rollouts.

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The starting salary range posted for this position is $ to $ and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term…