About WEKA
WEKA is redefining the enterprise data stack for the age of AI. Our platform enables the world’s most advanced organizations to run high-performance workloads - from large-scale model training to real-time inference - faster and more efficiently.
WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s largest and most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, achieve discoveries, insights, and business outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about solving our customers’ most complex data challenges to accelerate intelligent innovation and business value. If you share our passion, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.
The Role
This is a rare opportunity to:
- Have a direct impact on AI performance and GPU efficiency at scale
- Combine deep technical thinking with product ownership
- Own product decisions that influence real-world system behavior
As a Product Manager at WEKA, you will define how next-generation AI workloads interact with high-performance storage and networking systems.
This is a deep-tech product role at the core of our platform, where your decisions directly impact performance, scalability, and efficiency across large-scale AI environments.
You’ll operate at the intersection of product, distributed systems, and hardware-aware infrastructure - shaping how modern data platforms are built and optimized.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute product strategy for WEKA’s platform and infrastructure layer
- Own the product roadmap - balancing innovation, performance, and customer needs
- Work closely with engineering to design and deliver high-performance capabilities
- Translate complex technical challenges into clear product decisions and priorities
- Partner with customers and internal teams to understand real-world use cases and constraints
- Stay ahead of trends in storage, networking, and distributed systems
- Collaborate with top engineers, architects, and customers solving cutting-edge challenges
What You Bring
You’re a product thinker with a strong technical foundation, who enjoys going deep into complex systems.
You might come from one (or more) of these backgrounds:
- Product Manager in infrastructure / platform / deep-tech domains
- Software Engineer or Architect who transitioned into product
- Sales Engineer highly experienced with storage, networking, or distributed systems
Your Experience Includes
- Experience in one or more of the following:
- Storage systems (e.g., NVMe, SSDs, RAID)
- Networking / high-performance protocols (e.g., RDMA, DPDK)
- Distributed systems / infrastructure platforms
- Ability to work closely with engineering on complex technical challenges
- Strong communication skills - able to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience driving product decisions in fast-paced environments
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with technologies like RDMA (InfiniBand, RoCE), GPUDirect Storage, or kernel-bypass networking
- Understanding of performance optimization (latency, throughput, IOPS)
- Experience with large-scale data or AI infrastructure
Skills Required
- 8-10 years of progressive experience in product management
- Experience with network-based storage products using NVMe and SSD drives
- Understanding of PCIe architecture and NVMe drive interfaces
- Demonstrable understanding of RAID- and erasure-coded data protection schemes
- Knowledge of technologies such as RDMA, InfiniBand, and GPUDirect Storage integration
- Familiarity with network buffer management and CPU affinity optimization
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
What We Do
Weka offers WekaFS, the modern file system that uniquely empowers organizations to solve the newest, biggest problems holding back innovation. Optimized for NVMe and the hybrid cloud, Weka handles the most demanding storage challenges in the most data-intensive technical computing environments, delivering truly epic performance at any scale. Its modern architecture unlocks the full capabilities of today’s data center, allowing businesses to maximize the value of their high-powered IT investments. Weka helps industry leaders reach breakthrough innovations and solve previously unsolvable problems. Try now at https://www.weka.io/
