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title: 'Senior / Staff Product Manager at Tigera'
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# Senior / Staff Product Manager at Tigera

- **Company:** Tigera
- **Location:** San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-07-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/tigera/jobs/4718583005?gh_jid=4718583005

## Job description

Tigera—the pioneer behind Calico and Lynx—is defining the future of AI agent security, workload governance, and cloud-native networking. As autonomous AI agents, LLM frameworks, and microservices proliferate across enterprise infrastructure, Tigera delivers the deep visibility, runtime protection, and eBPF-driven enforcement control required to secure the next generation of computing.

From modern cloud-native architectures to cutting-edge AI agent ecosystems, our technology safeguards over 1 million Kubernetes clusters across multicloud and hybrid environments. Trusted by world-class innovation leaders—including NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, and Upwork—we empower enterprises to build, scale, and innovate with AI safely and without compromise.

At Tigera, our customers are the heroes of our story. We aim high, move fast, foster continuous learning, and build a high-trust, highly collaborative environment where every voice shapes the future of AI security. 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. Enterprises are taking AI applications and AI agents from pilot to production,  deploying autonomous agents that act on behalf of users, call tools and other agents, form delegation chains, and process untrusted input. Running this new generation of workloads at scale on Kubernetes places intense new demands on the network.

Tigera is meeting that moment on two fronts. Calico is evolving into the L3/L4 networking and security foundation purpose-built to connect and secure AI workloads and agents. Lynx, a unified control plane for Kubernetes-native AI agents, adds agent-aware control at the kernel and L7 layers discovering, authenticating, authorizing, and governing every agent action. These agents don’t behave like the workloads enterprise security stacks were built for and securing them has become one of the most urgent unsolved problems in the enterprise.

We are hiring a Senior / Staff Product Manager to help drive the strategy and evolution of the Tigera platform. This is a senior role spanning strategy through execution: you will shape product direction, contribute to go-to-market, and partner directly with engineering, sales, marketing, and ecosystem partners to bring new capabilities to market. You will take ownership of key, high-impact areas within our flagship initiatives, with Lynx as the primary focus, and extending into the evolution of Calico as the L3/L4 network and security layer for AI workloads and agents, You will be working alongside fellow product managers and company leadership, and taking on additional areas 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: USD $200,000 - $240,000 (inclu bonus)

You Will Own:

- Key areas of the product vision & roadmap for Tigera’s flagship initiatives, owning specific, high-impact workstreams within Lynx’s kernel and L7-layer control (for example, areas such as agent discovery, identity, authorization, runtime enforcement, or observability) and contributing to the evolution of Calico as the L3/L4 network and security layer that connects and secures AI workloads and agents.
- Competitive positioning for the areas you own, across two fronts: the emerging AI agent security category, where you’ll help define the narrative for Lynx (“a unified control plane for Kubernetes-native AI agents,” “guardrails, not gates”); and the Kubernetes networking and security market, where Calico leads with platform value for connecting and securing AI workloads - unified networking, best-in-class microsegmentation, DNS policy, cluster-mesh, observability - rather than competing feature-for-feature at the dataplane layer.
- Go-to-market contribution 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 identity (Entra ID, Okta, SPIFFE/SPIRE), service mesh (Istio), and platform and infrastructure partners.
- Customer discovery & validation with enterprise accounts, including the banks and Global 2000 security teams already adopting Lynx — running structured interviews to pressure-test and falsify 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 for building canonical positioning artifacts for your areas and helping drive consistency in how the product is described across the organization, to customers, and in the market.

You Have

- 8+ years in product management, including senior/principal-level ownership of technical infrastructure or security products, with a track record of taking products from vision to GA and revenue.
- AI Fluency - extensive knowledge of LLM, MCP, tool-calling, and AI infrastructure, such as LLM Gateway, Inference Gateway, A2A protocol
- Kubernetes and cloud-native networking/security expertise - network policy, microsegmentation, kernel-level enforcement (eBPF), zero-trust identity (OIDC, SPIFFE/SPIRE), and L7/service-mesh policy.
- 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 and security buyers (CISOs, platform and AI leaders) 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.
- Collaborative owner and crisp operator - structured, low-friction, and factually disciplined; you take clear ownership of your areas while partnering well across a larger product org, and move quickly from insight to a decision-ready artifact.

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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