Senior Product Manager - Platform Security

Senior Staff Product Manager – Platform Security

Splunk is building a safer and more resilient digital world. Our unified security and observability platform protects leading enterprises worldwide. This role drives the core security primitives that power Splunk’s platform, cloud services, and AI future, owning product strategy for PKI, certificate lifecycle automation, TLS and cryptographic upgrades, FIPS compliance, secrets management, and secure service identity for a multi‑billion‑dollar product portfolio.

Lead Platform Security as a product authority and single‑threaded owner. Partner across engineering, architecture, compliance, and product teams to deliver crypto‑resilient infrastructure that customers rely on every second of every day.

• Develop and maintain a multi‑year roadmap for Platform Security capabilities, including certificate lifecycle management, PKI infrastructure, secrets management, token security, and cryptographic compliance (FIPS 140‑3, TLS modernization).
• Manage strategic decisions to maximize impact from security engineering investments in a fast‑paced environment.
• Lead product strategy for secure‑by‑default foundation services such as certificate authority enablement, key/secret management, automated rotation, secure bootstrapping, and encrypted data‑in‑transit/at‑rest standards across Splunk products.
• Drive security strategy for AI agent workloads and runtime environments—credential isolation, secret‑safe execution, secure inter‑agent messaging, and identity‑backed trust between agents, services, and compute surfaces.
• Partner closely with engineering, architecture, compliance, and product teams to deliver security‑critical outcomes tied to regulatory requirements and Cisco‑Splunk alignment.
• Drive end‑to‑end product development—shaping RFCs, technical requirements, prioritization, and execution through GA delivery at enterprise scale.
• Influence direction and elevate standards through clear roadmap narratives, technical proposals, and risk‑impact evaluations across multiple product organizations.
• Champion a platform‑wide security culture focused on resilience, crypto‑agility, and continuous improvement of secrets, certificates, and machine identity posture.

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD in Computer Science, Security Engineering, or equivalent technical experience with demonstrable depth in cryptographic or distributed security domains.
• 10+ years of Product Management or Technical Leadership experience in cloud, enterprise infrastructure, or high‑security systems.
• Proven expertise owning and scaling platform security systems—PKI, certificate automation pipelines, CA/RA models, HSM/KMS integration, token/secret stores, mTLS authentication, and access trust chains.
• Direct experience leading large‑scale cryptographic modernization (TLS 1.3 upgrades, OpenSSL 3.x migrations, cipher deprecation, FIPS 140‑2/3 certification, crypto agility frameworks).

• Ability to influence architecture and technical standards across multiple business units, establishing long‑term direction, governance, and execution rhythm across distributed engineering teams.
• Exceptional written and spoken communication—able to articulate proposals at executive level and drive alignment across technical decision‑makers.
• Experience with distributed observability platforms or large‑fleet runtime security/agent‑based compute models.

Starting salary range: $176,100 to $250,400 (U.S. and/or Canada). Full compensation includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, and potential equity awards. Employees may receive annual bonuses and paid time off per Cisco policies.