Senior Staff Product Manager - Platform Security (Durham)

The application window is expected to close on:Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.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 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 ensure the highest impact from security 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. Champion a 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. 10+ years Product Management or Technical Leadership experience in cloud, enterprise infrastructure, or high-security systems. Proven expertise owning and scaling platform security systems — sucha as 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). Preferred Requirements 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 exec level and drive alignment across technical decision-makers. Splunk or distributed observability platform experience strongly preferred; background in large-fleet runtime security or agent-based compute models a plus. 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 $176,100.00 to $250,400.00 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.U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by CiscoNon-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 employeesExempt 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 nextAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family membersOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteerFor 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%; andOnce 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:$191,400.00 - $323,600.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:$176,100.00 - $287,900.00* 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.Job SummaryJob number: 2019103Date posted : 2026-07-20Profession: Product and EngineeringEmployment type: Full time