Staff Engineering Product Manager, Analytics – Query Language & Planning

• Own the long-term vision and product strategy for Splunk's SPL search language
• Define how internal and third-party developers build on SPL
• Lead cross-functional alignment to integrate SPL across products with different execution models
• Create a consistent analytical experience across the Splunk portfolio
• Define the query-planning model translating user intent into execution against indexes, distributed data stores, and streaming or third-party runtimes
• Establish compatibility, versioning, and migration principles for evolving the language without changing existing search behavior
• Build the language roadmap from direct customer and internal client insight
• Connect platform architecture to user workflows
• Influence partner teams and senior leaders through narratives and architecture reviews
• Resolve technical disagreements and drive a coherent language strategy
• Lead go-to-market and internal rollout across team boundaries

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience
• At least 5 years of product management experience with a highly technical platform or developer product
• Validated depth in a query language, database engine, compiler, runtime, or developer platform
• Experience crafting how a technical platform or language behaves and evolves
• Experience driving technical direction across organizational boundaries
• Experience with technical customers or internal developers as a primary customer
• Ability to build alignment around product and architectural direction
• Outstanding verbal and written communication with technical and executive audiences
• Ability to explain architecture decisions clearly and respond to technical challenges in real time
• Experience handling compatibility for customer-authored content or public developer interfaces
• Experience handling developer- or customer-impacting migrations
• Preferred: familiarity with SPL and customer content built on it
• Preferred: experience with distributed query engines or orchestration platforms
• Preferred: background in security analytics, observability products, or analytics over metrics, logs, traces, and spans
• Preferred: experience designing query interfaces for AI agents

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in product management for technical platforms, with a focus on query languages and developer products. Capable of leading cross-functional teams to align product strategy and architecture while ensuring compatibility and migration principles are upheld.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Management Experience
• Query Language Expertise
• Technical Direction Leadership
• Cross-Functional Alignment
• Outstanding Communication Skills

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Query Language
• Database Engine
• Compiler
• Runtime
• Technical Platform Development
• Compatibility Handling
• Migration Management
• Architectural Decision Making
• SPL Familiarity
• Distributed Query Engines

Soft Skills

• Verbal Communication
• Written Communication
• Influencing Skills
• Problem Resolution
• Alignment Building

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree

Industry Keywords

• Security Analytics
• Observability Products
• Analytics Over Metrics
• Logs
• Traces
• Spans
• AI Query Interfaces