Technical Product Manager

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

Nice to Have

Experience with message-driven architectures (PubSub, Kafka)

Familiarity with service-to-service communication

Background in security, DevOps, or automation platforms

Experience with hybrid deployments - cloud services connecting to customer-managed agents/runners

As an equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to a team defined and empowered by diversity. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are waiting for you!

We build AI for a living, and we encourage candidates to use it to prep, research, and sharpen their best work. But we're hiring humans, not chatbots. We want the real you. Use AI to tighten your resume, prep for interviews, research Torq, and outline ideas for written responses. Show up as yourself for live interviews, final assessments (the voice, logic, and reasoning need to be yours), and anywhere we're evaluating how you think — not how you prompt.

Excited about our vision and ready to make an impact as we grow? We'd love to see what you can bring to the team.

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