Workday
Senior Product Manager – Developer Platform Telemetry & Observability
$141K–$252K
USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in product management, software engineering, or technical platform leadership; 4+ years in observability, logging, monitoring, or OTEL infrastructure; 4+ years cross-functional technical-team experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
About the job
Leads product strategy and delivery for Workday’s developer-platform telemetry, logging, and observability foundation.
What you'll do
- Own the multi-quarter roadmap for observability, centralized logging, and metrics gathering.
- Guide cross-functional teams in delivering scalable OpenTelemetry pipelines, enterprise logging, monitoring dashboards, and telemetry APIs.
- Lead technical trade-offs and product advocacy, and oversee delivery from design through rollout and optimization.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of product management, software engineering, or technical platform leadership experience, including ownership of developer-facing software products, cloud infrastructure, or monitoring tools.
- 4+ years building, scaling, or managing observability platforms, log management systems, monitoring tools, or OpenTelemetry infrastructure.
- 4+ years working across complex technical dependencies with multiple engineering, SRE, and architecture teams.
- Expertise in OpenTelemetry standards, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and enterprise monitoring frameworks.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience with AI-powered tools for observability workflows, log analysis, or developer troubleshooting.
Pay
$168,000 USD - $252,000 USD (base salary); $140,600 USD - $252,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Splunk, ELK, Datadog
AI focus
Preferred experience using AI-powered tools and platforms to automate observability workflows, analyze logs, or improve developer troubleshooting.
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