Senior Product Manager - Platform Security

Position: Senior Staff Product Manager - Platform Security
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** Senior Staff Product Manager - Platform Security*
* Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. Our unified security and observability platform is trusted by the world's leading enterprises to secure and ensure the reliability of their digital systems. Join us as we pursue our next chapter - building Splunk into the industry-leading platform for secure data, trusted automation, and AI-powered defense. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our products, our customers, and delivering outcomes that matter.

At Splunk, we are committed to trust, innovation, and to each other's success. Now part of Cisco, we offer the scale, reach, and investment of a global technology leader while preserving the velocity, ownership, and product-driven culture that define Splunk. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey.

** The Opportunity*
* We are hiring a  
** Senior Staff Product Manager to lead Platform Security**  - defining and driving the core security primitives that power Splunk's platform, cloud services, and AI future. This role owns product strategy and execution for PKI, certificate lifecycle automation, TLS and cryptographic upgrades, FIPS compliance, secrets management, and secure service identity for a multi-billion-dollar product portfolio.

You will drive the next generation of Splunk's secure foundation - ensuring every workload, every customer action, and every AI agent at Splunk is backed by strong identity=, standards-compliant hardened cryptography, and secure-by-default design. You will also lead security direction for  
** AI agent workloads and runtime environments** , ensuring safe credentials, isolationed boundaries, encrypted inter-agent communication, and trust-anchored execution models as Splunk scales into distributed automation and agentic decisioning.

This is a pivotal role for Splunk's future. You will act as the product authority and single-threaded owner working across engineering, architecture, and product leadership to deliver crypto-resilient infrastructure that customers rely on every second of every day.

** Responsibilities*
* + Develop andmaintaina 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 ensure the highest impactfromsecurity engineering investments in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

+ Lead product strategy for secure-by-default foundation services - 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 product development end-to-end - 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.

+ Championa platform-wide security culture focused on resilience, crypto-agility, and continuous improvement of secrets, certificates, and machine identity posture.

** Minimum*
* ** Requirements*
* + Bachelor's, Master's, PhD in Computer Science, Security Engineering, or equivalent technical experience - with demonstrable depth in cryptographic or distributed security domains.

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** 10+ years
** Product Management or Technical Leadership experience in cloud, enterprise infrastructure, or high-security systems.

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