Product Manager

Posted 2 Days Ago
Chicago, IL, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Information Technology • Software • Analytics
The Role
Lead discovery, prioritization, and storytelling for a real-time observability platform for Linux clusters. Work with founders, engineers, and customers to define roadmap, translate systems-level complexity into clear product direction, create metrics and dashboards, improve developer experience, and ensure shipped features deliver measurable operational value.
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About yeet

yeet is built by a tight-knit group of systems, observability, and kernel nerds who refuse to accept “mystery outages” as normal. We’re a small, high-impact team with domain expertise in Linux, eBPF, performance instrumentation, and developer tooling.

We move fast, ship often, and take deep ownership. If you enjoy operating close to the metal, building tools that real engineers lean on during 3 AM incident sprints, and solving hard problems with minimal overhead, you’ll feel right at home here.

About the role

We’re looking for a Product Manager to help define and shape the future of real-time, on-demand observability platform for Linux clusters.

This isn’t a backlog-maintenance role, it’s about working directly with founders, engineers, and customers to figure out what matters most and why.

You’ll help yeet carve out its place in the observability ecosystem by identifying the gaps incumbents can’t fill and ensuring our roadmap reflects the problems real teams face when they’re under pressure. This role is equal parts discovery, prioritization, and storytelling: Figuring out what’s worth building, aligning the team around it, and making sure the end result actually delivers value in the wild.

If you love turning deep technical complexity into clarity and impact, you’ll thrive here.

About you
  • You have experience managing technical products and a strong intuition for what makes a great developer experience.

  • You can dive into details like VMs vs. Containers vs. Kubernetes deployments and use that context to guide product decisions.

  • You’ve worked closely with engineers before and can translate between deep technical detail and clear product direction.

  • You have a background in computer science or engineering (formal degree or equivalent hands-on experience) and can engage meaningfully with system-level concepts.

  • You’re an analytics whiz and are comfortable creating dashboards, defining metrics, and using data to measure success and inform trade-offs.

  • You’re motivated by helping teams ship faster, stay reliable, and reduce operational burden.

  • You care deeply about usability, reducing friction, simplifying workflows, and making powerful tools feel effortless.

Nice To Haves
  • Familiarity with modern observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.).

  • Exposure to low-level Linux concepts (syscalls, networking, BPF) or at least curiosity about how systems work under the hood.

  • Prior experience at a fast-moving startup, where you balanced customer needs with limited resources.

  • Strong storytelling skills: You can turn technical complexity into a crisp, compelling narrative for customers, teammates, and investors.

  • Experience working with designers on usability research, making sure developer tools aren’t just functional, but actually intuitive and enjoyable to use.

  • Familiarity with pricing & packaging strategy for technical products.

  • You’ve been in the trenches with incident management or ops teams and understand the real pain of “3 a.m. pages.”

Skills Required

  • Experience managing technical products with strong intuition for developer experience
  • Ability to work with system-level deployment contexts (VMs, Containers, Kubernetes) to guide product decisions
  • Proven experience collaborating closely with engineers and translating technical details into product direction
  • Background in computer science or engineering (degree or equivalent hands-on experience)
  • Strong analytics skills; comfortable creating dashboards, defining metrics, and using data to inform trade-offs
  • Focus on usability and simplifying workflows for developer-facing tools
  • Motivated to help teams ship faster, stay reliable, and reduce operational burden
  • Familiarity with modern observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.)
  • Exposure to low-level Linux concepts (syscalls, networking, BPF) or strong curiosity about systems internals
  • Prior experience at a fast-moving startup balancing customer needs with limited resources
  • Strong storytelling skills to communicate technical complexity to customers, teammates, and investors
  • Experience working with designers on usability research for developer tools
  • Familiarity with pricing and packaging strategy for technical products
  • Experience with incident management or ops teams (understanding 3 a.m. pages)
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The Company
16 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

yeet builds a high-performance monitoring and system-analysis platform for Linux environments, from cloud to edge. Its toolkit uses low-level kernel and eBPF instrumentation to collect, filter, and visualize real-time system data, helping engineers identify bottlenecks, anomalies, application behavior, GPU activity, and performance issues. The company also presents yeet as a JavaScript runtime for Linux operations, combining developer tooling with observability and profiling capabilities.

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