Description
Product Manager - Data Platform (Indexing & Storage)
Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.
Splunk is looking for a highly technical and design savvy Senior Product Manager to drive efforts on event processing of time-series data and efficiently store the processed data. The Indexing and Storage team, part of our Data Platform division, plays a critical role in the Splunk platform. This team is responsible for the majority of the processing and storing of data that comes into Splunk which is an integral part of our core value to customers. As the Product Manager of this team, you will define the critical features and roadmap for bringing high-scale, high-performance data processing to Splunk customers.
You will use your understanding of the data platforms, scalability and high availability to synthesize ideas that improve Splunk's Enterprise and Cloud offerings. This role presents an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand experience in building end-to-end data platform cloud services contributing towards Splunk’s industry-leading data platform and delivering high impact customer & business outcomes.
You will merge attention to technical detail with the ability to understand and align to business imperatives while working hand-in-glove with cross-functional execution teams to drive customer insights and inputs directly into the development process.
What you'll get to do
As with any fast-growing company, day-to-day responsibilities will span the entire product delivery pipeline and include deep interaction with customers, sales, and engineering.
- Own the whole product experience for your area.
- Engage with customers, develop insights into what is possible, and uncover unarticulated needs to ensure customer success.
- Build product roadmaps based on customers' needs, including market and technology forces.
- Define product specifications, user stories, mockups, and acceptance criteria independently and in collaboration with engineering.
- Interact and collaborate with Support, NOC, and field teams to understand customer issues and drive business outcomes.
- Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, and release teams to plan, drive and execute product release cycles.
- Collaborate with product marketing to support the creation of content
Must have qualifications
- 3+ years of experience as a technical product manager
- Experience as a Product Manager in building core platform technology for unstructured, structured, and semi-structured data processing and storage
- Familiarity with cloud services, batch/stream data processing, data storage formats, high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Strong sense of product ownership & customer empathy to care deeply about customer problems and the user experience.
- Analytical thinking skills and a data-informed approach to decision-making.
- Collaborative, with strong communication skills, including the ability to translate sophisticated technical products and features into simple concepts and presentations
- Ability to define user stories in collaboration with the Design and Engineering teams
Nice to have Qualifications:
- Experience building data platform products with a focus on data processing, cloud storage, high availability, performance, and scalability.
- Strong bias for action, creative thinking, innovation, and data-informed product decision-making.
- Operate and think in terms of the business outcome, end-user experience, the underlying technology stack to drive those experiences and outcomes
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure and agile software development
- Passion for understanding end-to-end business workflows and building enterprise products with intuitive user experience.
Education:
- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science or related major
Meet the Products and Technology Team
Want to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are? Our products and technology team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a self-service Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics, full stack observability and real-time visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at
splunk.com/careers/products-and-technology.
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Note:
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $133,600.00 - 183,700.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $120,240.00 - 165,330.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $106,880.00 - 146,960.00 per year
Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.
Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!
