Product Manager, Safe Change & Control Plane

We are looking for a Product Manager to lead Safe Change for Cloudflare's control plane. In this role, you will define how customers preview, stage, roll out, monitor, and recover from configuration changes. You will also shape platform foundations that enable internal teams to deploy changes with higher confidence, stronger guardrails, and lower operational risk. Cloudflare's control plane converts dashboard and API changes into global network configurations. The role owns a high-leverage product domain spanning distributed systems, reliability, developer experience, and enterprise governance, and helps turn proven deployment safety patterns into reusable platform primitives across Cloudflare.

Responsibilities

Represent the customer, be it internal or external, and bring the customer's voice into the creation process; Develop the product vision for your area that can scale to 10 or 100 times the current customer set; Evangelize the vision so that all stakeholders are aligned; Make data-driven roadmap decisions and prioritize tough tactical decisions; Measure success by owning and tracking the measures used to define product success; Author use cases, prioritize requirements and translate feedback into a prioritized product backlog; Collaborate across teams to create alignment between engineering teams and stakeholders; Lead Safe Change for Cloudflare's control plane, defining how customers preview, stage, roll out, monitor, and recover from configuration changes

Requirements

4+ years of previous product management experience; Domain expertise in making deployment decisions based on data, as an architect or product owner for safe change or a very closely related technology space; Distributed systems experience to drive the scaling strategy for deployment; Experience presenting new products and features to customers, whether as a developer, analyst or product manager; Strong customer and stakeholder empathy; Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational and analytical skills; Demonstrated ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders; Experience working with large and complex data sets (SQL, Postgres, Prometheus, etc.); Experience with telemetry pipelines (Metrics/Traces) and a very good understanding of modern observability platforms; Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to all audiences

Nice to have

BS/MS in a technology- or business-related field; Experience with deployment platforms, release engineering, progressive delivery, feature flags, GitOps, IaC, or incident management; Background in networking, security, CDN, edge computing, observability, or large-scale SaaS environments; Hands-on experience with APIs, CLIs, telemetry tools, or scripting (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript); Experience building platform capabilities adopted by multiple product teams; Experience working with enterprise customers subject to strict change-management, compliance, or data residency mandates

Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance; Dental Insurance; Vision Insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts; Commuter Spending Accounts; Fertility & Family Forming Benefits; On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program; Global Travel Medical Insurance; Short and Long Term Disability Insurance; Life & Accident Insurance; 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan; Employee Stock Participation Plan; Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave; Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave; Eligibility to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan