Cisco
Engineering Product Manager
$179K–$329K
San Jose, California, US · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- 12 years with a bachelor's degree, 8 years with a master's degree, or 5 years with a PhD; related experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree.
About the job
Leads product strategy for Cisco’s Observability Center of Excellence and Developer Experience, improving reliability, incident response, and engineering velocity through standards, tools, and measurable outcomes.
What you'll do
- Own the Observability CoE and Developer Experience visions, strategies, roadmaps, and operating models.
- Set priorities and guide cross-functional teams to improve reliability, performance, incident response, and developer productivity.
- Turn operational data, incident learnings, and internal product use into product improvements and customer-facing guidance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of related experience, Master's degree plus 8 years, or PhD plus 5 years.
- Product management experience for complex SaaS, platform, developer, cloud, or observability products.
- Hands-on experience with one or more of digital experience monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, or application performance monitoring.
- Experience using data, telemetry, and customer or user insights to shape product strategy and measurable outcomes; leading cross-functional teams through ambiguous, technically complex decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience establishing or leading an observability, reliability, developer productivity, or operational-excellence center of excellence or community of practice.
- Experience with incident management, SRE, reliability engineering, production operations, AI-assisted development, or automation and AI tools.
Pay
$194,600.00 to $285,700.00 (base salary); $194,600.00 - $328,600.00 (base salary, New York City Metro Area); $179,000.00 - $294,000.00 (base salary, Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Tools
CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, Kubernetes, public-cloud platforms
AI focus
Elevate AI-driven Developer Experience; experience with AI-assisted development workflows and applying automation or AI tools to improve workflows responsibly is preferred.
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