Description

Principal Product Manager - Splunk App Platform

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but its our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. 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. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role Summary

Splunk is a platform, and apps are integral to innovation and building solutions for diverse global customers. The App Platform focuses on building the foundation for developers to innovate on the Splunk Platform. Our mission is to make it easy and safe for developers—internal, partner, and third-party—to build, deploy, and manage high-quality apps that deliver customer value. We’re looking for a Principal PM to lead our Application Development and Lifecycle Management track. This role will focus on building the core platform capabilities that power how apps are developed, deployed, and operated on Splunk.

What youll get to do

Define and drive the roadmap for developer enablement: SDKs, app scaffolding, test harnesses, local dev tooling, and CI/CD integrations.
Own the application lifecycle experience: create standards and platform support for safe install, upgrade, rollback, uninstallation, and app health visibility.
Partner with internal platform and security teams to define the primitives that help developers build compliant and supportable apps.
Work directly with developers—both internal and external—to understand their needs and translate that into roadmap and platform design.
Collaborate with partners and ecosystem teams to make sure app development on Splunk scales beyond first-party teams.
Partner with GTM, Sales Engineering, and Partner teams to support app adoption, ecosystem incentives, and readiness for field enablement.
Stay close to the market—understand where developer platforms are going, what enterprise app teams expect, and how we compare.
Set clear success metrics for app quality, lifecycle performance, developer productivity, and ecosystem growth—and drive improvements over time.
Be a thought partner across Splunk on how we scale app experiences and deliver value through our platform.

Must-have Qualifications

5+ years of product management experience, including time spent building developer-facing platforms, SDKs, or app frameworks.
Strong background in app lifecycle management—install, upgrade, mount, config, rollback, runtime—ideally in cloud-native or containerized environments.
Experience with developer tools and CI/CD pipelines. You’ve shipped SDKs, defined APIs, or built the workflows developers rely on.
Experience working directly with partners, field teams, and GTM functions to drive adoption and ecosystem success.
Solid technical foundation. You don’t need to code, but you need to understand architecture and platform trade-offs.
Clear communicator who can drive alignment across engineering, security, product, and developer stakeholders.
Experience working with an internal or external developer community is a big plus.
Experience with Splunk, observability, or enterprise platforms is nice to have but not required.

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Note:

Base Pay Range

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area

Base Pay Range: $181,200.00 - 249,150.00 per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay Range: $163,080.00 - 224,235.00 per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay Range: $144,960.00 - 199,320.00 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 Splunks 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!