Senior PM - Developer Platform Telemetry & Observability

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Pleasanton, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager (P4) for the Developer Core Services team to lead platform telemetry, logging, and observability.

You will drive OpenTelemetry integrations, scalable telemetry pipelines, and enterprise monitoring partnerships with Splunk and cloud-native tools. You will coordinate with backend engineers, SREs, and platform teams to deliver scalable observability capabilities, set measurable KPIs, and guide multi-team delivery from design

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management or technical platform leadership.
• 4+ years building/ scaling observability platforms or OTEL telemetry infrastructure.
• 4+ years cross-functional work with engineering, SRE, and architecture teams.
• Proven expertise with OTEL standards, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and enterprise monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and maintain a multi-quarter roadmap for platform observability, centralized logging, and metrics gathering.
• Architect resilient telemetry pipelines using OTEL for logs, traces, and metrics.
• Establish telemetry KPIs, SLIs/SLOs, and dashboards in Splunk and cloud tooling.
• Partner with development teams, SREs, and backend groups to align dependencies.
• Lead multi-team delivery from design and OTEL spikes through rollout and post-launch optimization.
• Lead governance around logging decommissioning, tenant lifecycle, security/compliance, and zero-trust telemetry.
• Advocate observability capabilities at events and translate tech concepts for engineers.

Skills

OpenTelemetry OTEL

Log management

Distributed tracing

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Splunk

ELK

Datadog

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Pleasanton, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager (P4) for the Developer Core Services team to lead platform telemetry, logging, and observability.

You will drive OpenTelemetry integrations, scalable telemetry pipelines, and enterprise monitoring partnerships with Splunk and cloud-native tools. You will coordinate with backend engineers, SREs, and platform teams to deliver scalable observability capabilities, set measurable KPIs, and guide multi-team delivery from design