Technical Product Manager, Infrastructure and Dev Ops

Department: Product

Reports To: Head of Product

Employment Type:Full-Time

Location:Chicago IL In-Person

Salary: $140000 $180000

Technical Product Manager Infrastructure & DevOps

Location: Chicago IL (West Loop) - Hybrid

Reports to: Head of Product

tastytrade is looking for a Technical Product Manager to own the roadmap for our infrastructure and DevOps capabilities the systems that keep our trading platforms fast stable and secure and that our engineers rely on to ship code confidently. Youll drive the strategy for our CI/CD pipelines cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code working closely with the engineers who build and operate them.

This is a hands-on technical role. Youll be trusted to dig into architecture and tooling decisions alongside engineers make prioritization calls and represent infrastructure priorities clearly to leadership.

• Own the roadmap for infrastructure and DevOps priorities including CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code and our AWS cloud environment in partnership with the infrastructure engineering team.
• Work with backend teams (Ruby and Java) to understand where infrastructure or tooling gaps are slowing down delivery or creating risk.
• Prioritize and sequence infrastructure work against the needs of application teams building customer-facing trading platforms account opening flows and internal tools.
• Define what healthy infrastructure looks like for tastytrade tracking metrics like deployment frequency incident frequency/MTTR and infra cost and using them to justify roadmap decisions.
• Partner with infrastructure engineers to improve build/test/deploy workflows so engineers can ship changes to production quickly and safely.
• Lead build-vs-buy evaluations for infrastructure tooling and vendors (e.g. containerization observability config management) weighing cost speed security and long-term scalability.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment practices meet the security compliance and audit expectations of a regulated brokerage (tastytrade is regulated by FINRA/NFA and is part of IG Group).
• Communicate roadmap tradeoffs risks and progress clearly to engineering leadership and stakeholders.

• 3 years of product management experience with meaningful time spent owning infrastructure DevOps platform or developer-productivity products.
• Technical depth: you can discuss CI/CD systems cloud architecture (AWS) infrastructure-as-code and distributed systems with engineers without everything needing to be explained to you.
• Track record of shipping infrastructure or platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability cost or engineering velocity.
• Experience partnering with engineering security and compliance teams ideally in a regulated industry (fintech brokerage financial services or similar).
• Strong prioritization instincts and the ability to navigate tough tradeoff conversations across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Comfortable presenting strategy and tradeoffs to both engineers and leadership.
• Self-directed: you can create clarity and a roadmap out of ambiguity with minimal oversight.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or relevant STEM field or equivalent practical experience.

• Prior experience as a software or infrastructure engineer before moving into product management.
• Familiarity with options/futures trading systems market data or order execution infrastructure.

• Performance Bonuses
• Stock Purchase Options
• Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
• 401k Plan
• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
• 10 Paid Sick Days
• Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Commuter Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs
• Charitable Donation Matching
• Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
• Daily catered lunch when in the office
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
• In-building gym
• Shuttle to/from Metra