Engineering Product Manager: Observability & DevX

Cisco; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Stock-based incentives

Job summary

Cisco seeks an Engineering Product Manager for the Observability Center of Excellence and Developer Experience. You will lead product strategy across engineering, SRE, design, quality, security, and GTM to establish scalable observability practices and elevate AI-driven DevX posture.

You will define priorities, drive cross-functional alignment, and translate CoE learnings into customer-facing artifacts, influencing platform strategy over an 18–24 month horizon.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of related experience, Master's degree plus 8 years, or PhD plus 5 years.
• Product management experience for complex SaaS, platform, developer, cloud, or observability products.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of: digital experience monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, or application performance monitoring.
• Experience using data, telemetry, and customer or user insights to shape product strategy, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through ambiguous, technically complex decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, multi-quarter strategy, roadmap, and operating model for the Observability Center of Excellence.
• Own the organization’s Developer Experience vision and roadmap, defining the principles, golden paths, and success measures that reduce developer friction and improve engineering velocity, quality, and satisfaction.
• Define clear, outcome-based priorities across product, engineering, and operations teams, linking investments to measurable improvements in time-to-market, availability, performance, digital experience, and incident response.
• Lead prioritization and complex trade-off decisions across multiple products and teams; maintain strategic focus while adapting quickly to operational risks and changing needs.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, support, and on-call teams to identify monitoring gaps, remove blockers, and improve detection, diagnosis, and resolution of performance and availability issues.

Skills

Product management

Observability

SaaS

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Developer workflows

Job description

Cisco seeks an Engineering Product Manager for the Observability Center of Excellence and Developer Experience. You will lead product strategy across engineering, SRE, design, quality, security, and GTM to establish scalable observability practices and elevate AI-driven DevX posture.

You will define priorities, drive cross-functional alignment, and translate CoE learnings into customer-facing artifacts, influencing platform strategy over an 18–24 month horizon.