Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'.
Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to own Torq's Runtime domain - the core engine that powers millions of workflow executions for security teams worldwide. We seek an experienced, curious, self-motivated product manager to join our team and lead our events pipeline, orchestration, and execution infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Doing
Become an expert in all runtime aspects - events pipeline, orchestration, execution, Runners, and the infrastructure that powers them
Own the end-to-end Runner experience - deployment models, resource management, connectivity, and troubleshooting
Perform customer research and technical deep-dives to understand scale requirements, reliability needs, and pain points
Analyze customer escalations to identify patterns and translate them into actionable engineering requirements
Make critical decisions with respect to architectural trade-offs, reliability, performance, and quality to meet business objectives
Work closely with engineering to define, develop, and launch new runtime capabilities across our distributed execution layer
Our company and team spirit foster an environment that encourages taking initiative, being open to new ideas, and enjoying the ride!
The Ideal Candidate
3-5 years of experience as a product manager on backend/infrastructure products, OR 2+ years in PM following a backend engineering role
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or OpenShift) and container orchestration
Cloud infrastructure fluency - comfortable with AWS and GCP compute, networking, and storage
Experience with high-scale systems handling significant event throughput or distributed execution
Data-driven, with the ability to ask the right questions
Excellent interpersonal skills, able to drive teams & interfaces without direct authority
Strong technical communication - can explain distributed systems to customers and translate their pain into specs
Computer Science degree or equivalent technical background