Staff Engineering Product Manager, Analytics - Query Language & Planning (Hybrid)

Your Impact

• Own the long-term vision and product strategy for Splunk’s SPL search language, and how internal and third-party developers build on it.
• Lead cross-functional alignment to integrate SPL across products with different execution models, creating a consistent analytical experience for customers across the Splunk portfolio.
• Define the query-planning model that translates user intent into execution against Splunk indexes, distributed data stores, and streaming or third-party runtimes.
• Establish compatibility, versioning, and migration principles that allow the language to evolve without changing the intended behavior of existing customer searches.
• Drive the product strategy, building the language roadmap from direct customer and internal client insight, connecting platform architecture to the workflows users need to complete.
• Influence partner teams and senior leaders through clear narratives and architecture reviews, resolving technical disagreements and driving a coherent language strategy.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years of product management experience with a highly technical platform or developer product.
• Validated depth in a query language, database engine, compiler, runtime, or developer platform. Experience using SQL or a programming language is not sufficient; you should have crafted how a technical platform or language behaves and evolves.
• A record of driving technical direction across boundaries, with technical customers or internal developers as a primary customer. This includes building alignment around product and architectural direction.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication with both technical and executive audiences. For example: you should be able to explain an architecture decision clearly and respond to technical challenges in real time, via strategy documents and technical narratives.
• Experience handling compatibility for customer-authored content or public developer interfaces, or other direct experience handling developer or customer-impacting migrations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with SPL, and the customer content built on top of it.
• Experience with distributed query engines or orchestration platforms.
• Background in security analytics or observability products or analytics over metrics, logs, traces, and spans.
• Experience designing query interfaces for AI agents.
• Natural curiosity!

Pay

• Starting salary range: $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 (U.S. and/or Canada locations), not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.
• Individual pay determined by hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.
• Full salary ranges by specific state:
  • New York City Metro Area: $171,600.00 - $281,800.00
  • Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $151,300.00 - $250,900.00
• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
• For non-sales roles, employees are eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of base salary, split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Eligibility for grants of Cisco restricted stock units, vesting following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods.
• Paid time away:
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday.
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown.
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
  • Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
  • Exempt employees: flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations).
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
  • Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.

Schedule

This position is a hybrid role, requiring the employee to work both onsite and remotely. Candidates should be comfortable with a flexible work arrangement that balances in-office collaboration and remote work. Specific onsite days and remote days will be coordinated with the team and manager.