Principal Product Management Engineer

Cisco•San Jose, CA

7d•$233,900 - $330,400

About The Position

The application window is expected to close on: 10/19/2026 Meet the Team Splunk Enterprise Security is an 11-time Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in SIEM, and it sits at the center of Cisco's security strategy. Our team is Cisco's core security product team, responsible for the Splunk Enterprise Security editions that SOCs rely on every day. Our next chapter is changing what it costs to run a SIEM. We are integrating Splunk ES with Cisco Data Fabric to give customers distributed, federated data tiering. They can keep the data that matters hot and searchable, and manage everything else more economically, without leaving blind spots. We move fast, we value curiosity and resourcefulness, and every voice on the team counts. Your Impact You will be the product lead for the integration of Splunk Enterprise Security with Cisco Data Fabric. You will own the technical strategy and product outcomes for two goals: 1. Distributed, federated data tiering for SOC use cases: letting security teams detect, investigate, and respond across data wherever it lives, without centralizing and paying to ingest all of it. 2. Lower TCO through a better Day 1 experience: simplifying the data pipeline so customers get value from core security use cases faster and at lower cost.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 12+ years, Master's or PhD with 8+ years of related experience
4+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, including security operations
Product management or business line ownership experience in enterprise software or security
Experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed data systems or SIEM architectures
Some experience with Splunk Enterprise Security and security operations data lifecycles

Nice To Haves

SOC domain depth: Strong grasp of core SOC workflows (triage, investigation, hunting, response) and SOC personas, from Tier 1 analysts and detection engineers to SOC managers and CISOs.
Threat landscape awareness: Current knowledge of evolving attacker tradecraft, such as identity-based, cloud, and ransomware attacks, and how it shapes the data a SOC must retain and search.
Detection engineering: Understanding how detections are built, tuned, and maintained, and how data filtering or tiering affects detection efficacy.
Data pipeline management: Experience with security data pipelines (collection, normalization, routing, retention), cloud-native streaming such as Kafka and Kinesis, and data models such as CIM and OCSF.
Data tiering and TCO: Understanding federated search and storage economics, with a track record of reducing customer cost or complexity on a data-intensive platform.
Cisco ecosystem: Familiarity with Cisco networking and security data architectures, including Cisco Data Fabric.
Customer obsession: Regular direct engagement with SOC practitioners and security leaders, with real empathy for the analyst's day.
Communication and influence: Executive presence, the ability to lead across complex organizations and third-party partners, and skill at explaining technical and economic tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

Set the strategy. Define and drive the product and technical vision for the ES and Cisco Data Fabric integration, tied to measurable outcomes such as lower ingest and storage cost, faster time to value, and sustained detection efficacy.
Architect the integration. Design and deliver data flow, ingestion, and access patterns that support detection, investigation, threat hunting, and response across tiered and federated data.
Build intelligent data management features. Develop capabilities to tier, route, filter, and reduce data based on security value, so customers cut costs without compromising efficacy.
Simplify the data pipeline. Streamline onboarding, data source configuration, normalization, and routing for core security use cases, so customers see value on Day 1.
Drive cross-functional execution. Lead joint roadmaps, technical design reviews, and sprint alignment across Splunk, Cisco Data Fabric, and partner engineering teams.
Champion the SOC. Keep detection and response outcomes central to every decision, and translate complex customer and analyst requirements into clear, prioritized product capabilities.
Be the technical voice. Represent the product to customers, field teams, partners, and senior leadership, and bring customer and market insight back into the roadmap.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and 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
annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
Cisco restricted stock units