Principal Product Management Engineer

Cisco; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 234,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Competitive bonuses

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Product Lead to drive the integration of Splunk Enterprise Security with Cisco Data Fabric. You will own the technical strategy and product outcomes for federated data tiering and cost reduction across security use cases.

Lead cross‑functional teams across Splunk, Cisco Data Fabric, and partners, shaping the roadmap and ensuring Day 1 value with scalable data pipelines and detection efficacy. This role emphasizes collaboration and strategic influence.

Qualifications

• 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

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.

Skills

Product management

Security operations

Enterprise software

SIEM architectures

Splunk ES

Data pipelines

Cross-functional leadership

Security data lifecycles

Cloud data fabric

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

CIM

OCSF

Splunk ES

Job description

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

• 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.
• 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.

What You Will Do

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to Applicants Applying to Work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $233,900.00 to $330,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

• 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
• Non-exempt employees** receive 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 participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has 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, 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

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees On Sales Plans Earn Performance-based Incentive Pay On Top Of Their Base Salary, Which Is Split Between Quota And Non-quota Components, Subject To The Applicable Cisco Plan. For Quota-based Incentive Pay, Cisco Typically Pays As Follows

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area

$233,900.00 - $380,000.00

Non-Metro New York State & Washington State

$220,900.00 - $344,300.00

• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
• Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.