Product Manager, Platform

Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy – versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles

Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build

Shape the platform roadmap – balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work

Conduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs

Partner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality

Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds – and translate that into platform requirements

Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature

Represent platform strategy in customer conversations, partnership discussions, and technical due diligence processes

Experience building platform products at a BaaS, payments infrastructure, or developer tools company

Familiarity with the control plane / data plane architecture pattern as applied to developer platforms

Background in workflow or rules-engine product design – if-this-then-that style programmability at the infrastructure layer

Exposure to agentic AI use cases and how AI-native systems impose new requirements on payment infrastructure (context, controls, micropayment patterns)

You'll shape the platform architecture of a company that has real ambitions to be category-defining infrastructure – the Snowflake of payments

You'll work directly with the founding team and have a significant influence on product and engineering culture

Astra is profitable at Series A – the growth trajectory is funded, not a bet on future capital raises

The platform problems here are genuinely hard: multi-rail orchestration, programmable money movement, agentic payment primitives – this is not a CRUD application

Astra is a remote-first company hiring only within the U.S. We value thoughtful collaboration, clarity, and initiative. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.