Senior Product Manager – Developer Platform Core Services

Workday•Pleasanton, CA

6d•$140,600 - $252,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Developer Platform is an embedded platform-as-a-service (PaaS) built on highly scalable cloud backend infrastructure and AI capabilities, enabling enterprise applications, AI agents, and core integrations to run securely and reliably. As a Senior Product Manager on the Developer Core Services team, you will serve as a strategic product lead responsible for building and scaling the core backend infrastructure and platform foundation that empowers developers. You will lead cross-functional execution across backend engineering teams, drive architectural evolutions, and deliver high-throughput distributed services, application lifecycle management, telemetry pipelines, and infrastructure APIs that underpin the entire developer experience.

Requirements

8+ years of product management, software engineering, or technical platform leadership experience, with proven ownership of developer-facing software products or cloud platform infrastructure.
4+ years of experience working cross-functionally across complex technical dependencies with multiple engineering and architecture teams.
4+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, or managing backend cloud infrastructure, core platform services, distributed systems, or enterprise APIs.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex architectural concepts clearly to both executive stakeholders and software engineers

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
Experience with building platform as a service, cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerized deployment pipelines, and observability tooling
Strong analytical background with experience defining product telemetry, running developer usability spikes, and leveraging operational metrics to guide decisions.
Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-powered tools and platforms to inform product strategy, automate developer workflows, or enhance builder satisfaction.
High level of initiative and a track record of taking products from initial concept to commercial availability and post-GA iteration.

Responsibilities

Define, own, and maintain a multi-quarter product roadmap for core backend services—treating internal platform architecture as a product by gathering technical requirements from engineering and system architects to drive platform scalability and resilience.
Partner deeply with development teams, partners, system integrators, and internal engineering groups to align technical dependencies and unlock platform velocity.
Operate as a Senior PM lead guiding multiple scrum teams. Drive end-to-end product delivery from design, and spikes through testing, rollout, and post-launch optimization.
Architect resilient, high-availability distributed systems and core APIs that power high-volume transactions and seamlessly support downstream developer experience tooling and agentic AI workflows.
Lead technical and business trade-off discussions around legacy decommissioning, tenant lifecycle management, security/government compliance, and system resiliency metrics.
Serve as the primary product advocate across developer events, customer advisory boards, and internal forums, effectively translating complex technical capability into clear developer value.
Enable developers to move fast safely by building guardrails into the platform tools, ensuring security compliance, zero-trust patterns, and automated test environments are built-in
Establish and operationalize measurable KPIs tracking developer satisfaction, service reliability, and self-service platform adoption.