Technical Product Manager

Skeletons, lasers, monster trucks — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we’re growing like crazy, with $140M in Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth in 2025. Fueling Torq’s growth are our game changing agentic AI security solutions, 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. 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.

We are looking for an experienced Technical 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 (gRPC services, PubSub messaging, dispatcher logic)
• Collaborate with the Builder Experience team to ensure runtime capabilities surface correctly in the product
  
  

• 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
• 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.
  
  

• Experience with message-driven architectures (PubSub, Kafka)
• Familiarity with gRPC and service-to-service communication
• Background in security, DevOps, or automation platforms
• Experience with hybrid deployments - cloud services connecting to customer-managed agents/runners