Description
We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We're looking for a Senior Product Manager (P4) to lead the product vision and strategy for our Developer Platform, specifically focusing on platform telemetry, logging, and observability foundation.
About the Role As a Senior Product Manager (P4) on the Developer Core Services team, you will serve as the strategic product lead responsible for building, scaling, and advancing our platform telemetry, logging, and observability foundation. You will lead cross-functional execution across backend engineering teams, drive architectural evolutions, and deliver high-throughput observability pipelines, OpenTelemetry (OTEL) integrations, enterprise logging systems (e.g., Splunk), and infrastructure telemetry APIs that underpin the entire developer experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, own, and maintain a multi-quarter product roadmap for platform observability, centralized logging, and metrics gathering
- Architect resilient, high-availability telemetry collection pipelines and standards using OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
- Establish and operationalize measurable telemetry KPIs, SLIs/SLOs, and interactive monitoring dashboards
- Partner deeply with development teams, system integrators, site reliability engineers (SREs), and internal backend engineering groups
- Operate as a Senior PM lead guiding multiple scrum teams
- Lead technical and business trade-off discussions around legacy logging decommissioning, tenant lifecycle management, security/compliance, and zero-trust telemetry patterns
- Serve as the primary product advocate across developer events, customer advisory boards, and internal forums
About You
- 8+ years of product management, software engineering, or technical platform leadership experience
- 4+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, or managing observability platforms, log management systems, or OpenTelemetry (OTEL) telemetry infrastructure
- Proven expertise with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) standards, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and enterprise monitoring frameworks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Benefits
- Annualized base salary ranges: $168,000 USD - $252,000 USD (Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton)
- Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus
- Annual refresh stock grants
- Comprehensive benefits (more information available on Workday's website)
Flexible Work
- Combine in-person time and remote work with Flex Work
- Spend at least half (50%) of time each quarter in the office or in the field