Principal Product Manager, Developer Sandbox

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Product Manager, Developer Sandbox (Docker Sandboxes)

• Focus: Own a strategic product area end-to-end—from concept design through delivery, adoption, and operation

• Work style: Remote-first

• Visa sponsorship: Not available

Description

Own and drive Docker Sandboxes: its long-term vision and roadmap, with accountability for delivery, adoption, and operational results. Partner with developers, customers, and cross-functional teams to make fast, secure, isolated execution practical for both local and cloud workflows—especially for AI agents and untrusted code.

Responsibilities

• Own Docker Sandboxes’ long-term vision, roadmap, revenue, adoption, and results.
• Clearly articulate customer workflows and pain points, balancing security, performance, compatibility, and cost constraints.
• Engage with teams building AI agent coding environments, CI/testing systems, and other secure isolated workloads.
• Simplify complex tradeoffs across isolation, startup time, performance, density, networking, storage, and cost.
• Guide product definition, feature prioritization, and scope with engineering, design, security, operations, and go-to-market teams.
• Iterate with customers and cross-functional partners: hypothesize, measure adoption/impact, learn from releases, and continually improve the roadmap.

Requirements

• Prior professional experience as a software engineer (systems/infrastructure/platform engineering/developer tools/cloud preferred).
• Strong technical fluency in sandboxes/microVMs, containers, virtualization technologies, and hypervisors, including isolation and security boundaries.
• Experience designing, building, or operating systems that execute customer-provided untrusted or agent-generated code at scale.
• Understanding of modern developer infrastructure: Linux, container runtimes, orchestration, networking, storage, APIs, and cloud services.
• Comfort with command-line tools and the ability to discuss APIs, SDKs, and technical architecture with engineers and developers.
• Experience building B2B or SaaS products, or a background in public cloud and developer infrastructure.
• Knowledge of software supply chain and security: multi-tenant isolation, identity, secrets management, observability, and reliability.
• Ability to break down complex problems into small, releasable, user-valuable features.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and visual) and ability to explain complex ideas simply.
• Data-informed decision-making: analyze qualitative and quantitative data to define success metrics and prioritize investments.
• Collaborative, “doer” mindset; comfortable operating with ambiguity and working with fast-moving distributed teams.

Benefits

• Remote-first: work from home with office connection options in Seattle and Paris.
• Flexible schedule with trust to manage time while delivering high-quality work.
• Generous PTO plus quarterly “Whaleness Days” and an end-of-year “Whaleness break.”
• Home office support and a technology stipend (~US$100 net/month).
• Annual learning & development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave after six months of employment.
• Equity for all full-time employees and comprehensive benefits (medical, retirement, paid holidays vary by country).