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title: 'Principal Product Manager at Tigera'
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# Principal Product Manager at Tigera

- **Company:** Tigera
- **Location:** San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-07-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/tigera/jobs/4718583005?gh_jid=4718583005

## Job description

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera’s open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution.

Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis.

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

## About Your Role

A once-in-a-decade shift is reshaping enterprise infrastructure. Nearly every enterprise is moving toward a single, self-hosted platform that can run both containers and virtual machines — to raise hardware utilization, cut costs, and simplify operations. Steep price hikes from legacy virtualization vendors are accelerating the shift, pushing organizations to migrate their VM estates onto Kubernetes at speed — each move carrying unique and complex networking requirements.

At the same time, enterprises are taking AI applications and AI agents from pilot to production, and increasingly hosting their own open LLMs to control token costs and keep models close to the proprietary data that lives in their data centers. It all converges on one requirement: a single platform that can host containers and VMs together — spanning data centers and regions, with enterprise-grade HA and DR, high performance, low latency, and massive scale.

The networking that makes these converged platforms work is extraordinarily complex and almost always on the critical path. Tigera has built the best-in-class networking solution for this new generation of converged platforms — and this role sits at the center of that opportunity.

We are hiring a Principal Product Manager to help drive the strategy and evolution of the Calico platform. This is a senior, high-ownership role spanning strategy through execution: you will define product vision, shape go-to-market, and partner directly with engineering, sales, marketing, and ecosystem partners to bring new capabilities to market. You will own strategic initiatives across the platform over time — the first being to extend Calico's converged networking for VM workloads in Kubernetes, from initial MVP through GA and the roadmap beyond — while taking on additional platform bets as the business grows.

For this position, we are looking to hire in the San Francisco Bay Area (US), hybrid at our San Francisco or San Jose office.

San Francisco Bay Area Salary Range: $220,000 - $240,000 OTE

You Will Own:

- Product vision & roadmap for major Calico platform initiatives — from MVP to GA and the phased roadmap that follows, sequenced by customer value and revenue impact.
- Competitive positioning in the Kubernetes networking and security market. You will craft differentiated narratives that lead with platform value — unified networking, best-in-class microsegmentation and DNS policy, cluster-mesh, observability — rather than competing feature-for-feature at the dataplane layer.
- Go-to-market strategy across both sales-led motions (sales enablement, crisp platform pitches, close partnership with sales on qualified opportunities) and partner-led motions with the ecosystem of platform and infrastructure partners.
- Customer discovery & validation with enterprise accounts — running structured interviews to pressure-test and validate assumptions before committing engineering resources.
- Cross-functional execution with engineering on scope and delivery, and with marketing on messaging discipline and campaigns that shape market perception.
- Messaging & positioning discipline — building canonical positioning artifacts and driving consistency in how the product is described across the organization, to customers, and in to the market
- Ownership of the first five deals - Roll up your sleeves and own the process of closing the first five deals. Abstract learnings, share learnings broadly with the extended team, tune the strategy, build a repeatable playbook and enable the sales and solutions engineering teams to scale the business.

You Have:

- 8+ years in product management, including senior/principal-level ownership of technical infrastructure products, with a track record of taking products from vision to GA and revenue.
- Deep Kubernetes and cloud-native networking/security expertise — CNI, network policy, microsegmentation, L2/L3 networking concepts, eBPF, and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.
- Sharp competitive and positioning instincts — able to build canonical positioning artifacts (single-line description, problem/audience, category framing, differentiators, explicit "what it is not" boundaries) and enforce messaging consistency across the org.
- Enterprise GTM range — comfortable enabling sales, engaging senior technical buyers at large enterprises, and driving partner co-selling.
- Discovery-driven and evidence-based — you pressure-test assumptions with customer interviews and prioritize by revenue impact rather than work type.
- Crisp communicator and operator — structured, low-friction, and factually disciplined; you move quickly from insight to a decision-ready artifact.

Why This Role Matters:

Calico sits at the center of how modern enterprises connect and secure their infrastructure for cloud native applications and AI Agents. As a Principal Product Manager, you will own strategic bets that shape the platform's direction and reframe how the market thinks about Calico — working directly with company leadership on some of Tigera's most consequential decisions.

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.

## About Tigera

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tigera provides unified security, observability, and authorization control for AI agents and Kubernetes workloads through its Calico and Lynx platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; $53M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Ratan Tipirneni (CEO), Pervez Sikora (former President), Alain Mayer (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Kubernetes-native networking and security; AI agent security and governance
- **Target customers**: AI & Platform Engineering teams, Security teams at large enterprises (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission statement**: "Control and visibility for every AI workload and agent, wherever they run"

## Products & Services
- **[Calico Platform](https://www.tigera.io/)**: Unified platform for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability. Powered by Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF. Provides full visibility into AI agents, runtime enforcement, and policy automation across any Kubernetes distribution, VM, or bare metal host. Used by 1M+ clusters daily.
- **[Lynx](https://www.tigera.io/)**: AI Agent Security, Observability & Enforcement for Kubernetes. Allows teams to audit, observe, and enforce what AI agents are authorized to do *before* they act. Audit-ready by default with traceable logs for every agent action and policy decision.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$10.5M per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
  - Total Funding: $53M (Series B closed Dec 2018 for $30M; Series A $13M in 2016; Venture round $10M)
  - Nodes Secured Daily: 8M+
  - Clusters Under Management: 1M+
- **Notable Customers**: NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, Upwork
- **Investors/Partners**: 4 investors in Series B, 3 in Series A (exact names not fully disclosed in source)
- **Growth Signals**: Operating across 6 countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, India, Israel, UK); named GigaOM Leader and Outperformer; expanding into AI agent security (Lynx product launch)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Kubernetes expertise**: Created and maintains Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution
- **NSX alternative**: Migrate off VMware NSX without rearchitecting the network
- **Proactive enforcement**: Unlike traditional security tools that audit after the fact, Tigera enforces authorization *before* agents act
- **Proven at scale**: 8M+ nodes secured daily across 1M+ clusters in production at demanding enterprises
- **No vendor lock-in**: Works across every Kubernetes distribution, cloud provider, and on-premises environment
- **Single console**: One operator installs, configures, and manages the full networking and security stack

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Agent Security**: Extending policy enforcement and observability to govern autonomous AI agents as they become embedded in critical business processes
- **Simplification**: Reducing operational burden with automated policy recommendations, testing, and deployment
- **Unified platform**: Eliminating tool sprawl and fragmented controls across Kubernetes environments
- **Open-source commitment**: Maintaining Calico Open Source as the leading standard while offering advanced capabilities commercially

## Why Work Here
- **Company culture**: Collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect and commitment. Core values include continuous learning, building, and testing. 4.6/5.0 employer rating (63 reviews) with high marks for culture (4.6), work-life balance (4.5), and career growth (4.5) per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Global team with offices in USA, Canada, Ireland, and England; emphasizes flexible work environment
- **Perks**: Competitive salary with stock options, top-tier health/vision/dental benefits, monthly wellness allowance, quarterly team events, weekly team lunches, happy hours
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on continuous learning, certification, and open-source contribution. Team includes former engineers from Metaswitch, VMware, Microsoft, NGINX, and Project Calico
- **Team composition**: 87 employees currently; 44 in technical roles, 9 in product, 8 in marketing. Senior-heavy team (29 senior, 17 other management)
- **Active openings**: 6 positions including Senior AI/ML Engineer, Senior TestOps Engineer, Senior UI Engineer, Senior SDET, and Enterprise Account Executives

## Sources
1. [tigera.io](https://www.tigera.io/)
2. [tigera.io/about](https://www.tigera.io/about/)
3. [tigera.io/careers](https://www.tigera.io/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Tigera](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
5. [Workable - Tigera openings](https://apply.workable.com/tigera/?lng=en)

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