Infrastructure Platform Owner, OwnBackup
Travel may be required
3-5 days a week in office (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
Data protection platform
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Data protection platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Travel may be required
3-5 days a week in office (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help create a more secure and stress-free cloud-based experience for businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Background: A strong understanding of infrastructure, cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and DevOps methodologies is required
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on infrastructure, DevOps, Platform, Developer Efficiency or SRE products. Prior experience working closely with engineering teams is essential
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex projects from conception through to execution
- Problem Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on creative, scalable, and pragmatic solutions to technical challenges
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Agile Methodology: Hands-on experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Customer Focus: Demonstrated ability to advocate for users and balance user needs with business goals
Desirable
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native technologies and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Elastic, OpenSearch, Looker, etc)
- Understanding of security and compliance best practices in cloud environments
What the job involves
- As the Senior Technical Product Manager (TPM / Product Owner) for Infrastructure & Operations, you will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our internal platforms that support automated, scalable, and reliable infrastructure globally
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product Management, Support, Legal, and Security to ensure the development and delivery of infrastructure automation that meet the technical demands of modern cloud environments
- Your focus will be on reducing operational toil, improving system reliability, and enhancing the overall developer experience
- Product Strategy: Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for products built by the DevOps, SRE, and Production Engineering teams, ensuring alignment with company scale, reliability and security goals and internal engineering needs
- Collaboration: Partner closely with engineering, security, product, and support teams to understand technical challenges, identify areas for improvement, and prioritize solutions
- Backlog Management: Create, prioritize, and maintain the infrastructure product backlog. Ensure that engineering teams have a clear understanding of feature requirements, goals, and timelines. Balance technical debt with key enhancements to remove toil from our environment
- Automation & Reliability: Focus on delivering tools and platforms that automate infrastructure management, reduce operational toil, and increase system reliability
- User Empathy: Understand the pain points and needs of developers to provide solutions that improve their productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction
- Data-Driven Decisions: Use data and key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the impact of product releases and inform future product decisions
- Stakeholder Management: Serve as a key point of contact for infrastructure-related inquiries from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring transparent communication around product status, timelines, and deliverables
- Market Research: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, competitive products, and emerging technologies in infrastructure, DevOps, Platform engineering, and SRE practices
- Documentation & Training: Ensure that product documentation is thorough and provides guidance for internal teams. Facilitate training sessions as needed
- Agile Product Owner: Work closely with Team Leads and Directors of Infrastructure to ensure we perform Agile ceremonies and comply with Agile standards at the Sprint and Quarter level. Present quarterly reviews of the team's accomplishments and future plans
- The ideal candidate will work out of our Englewood Cliffs, NJ office a minimum of 3 days per week
- Free shuttle bus service to and from New York City
Our take
The trend towards companies embracing cloud-based services has only exaggerated over the past few years, and now demand is higher than ever for complementary support services like data backup and recovery. OwnBackup is offering precisely this to a market-leading standard, principally to Salesforce customers.
Achieving Unicorn status in 2021, OwnBackup embarked on a series of strategic acquisitions; including Nimmetry, which facilitated expansion into the Indian market; and Merlinx, which added elite data security talent to OwnBackup’s team. With Salesforce commanding a giant share of the SaaS cloud market, the company has locked in to lucrative and expanding market, attracting a well-financed and growing customer base.
OwnBackup has made strides to maintain pole position in the market, such as expanding its leadership team and releasing complimentary offerings to its product suite. The company has not, however, been immune to the larger economy at play, highlighted by cuts to the workforce in 2022. Despite this, the company's strong history of success bodes well for its operations into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2021
$240m
SERIES E
Jan 2021
$167.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $507.3m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) savings plan with an employer match of up to 4%
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Stock option grants
- Award-winning onboarding program
- Learning and development platform
- Inclusive, collaborative environment
- At our New Jersey headquarters, perks include a free shuttle service to and from NYC, catered lunches, and an in-office fitness center
Company values
- We take our work seriously but not ourselves.
- Culture is as important as results.
- We care about everything we do .
- We build trust through transparency.
- We’re always driving forward.
Company HQ
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Articles
Leadership
Ariel Berkman
(Co-founder)Having studied at the University of Illinois, they co-founded Recover Information Technologies, where they spent almost 9 years.
Sam Gutmann
(CEO, not founder)They founded Intronis in 2003 and served as CEO for 7 years. They later became Managing Director at Golden Seeds, and CIO at BassTech International.
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