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Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity
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The Product Manager, Cloud Platform (Data & Telemetry) joins the Cloud Platform team to build the data and telemetry foundation for cloud-managed networking experiences. This role involves defining and owning a multi-quarter roadmap for telemetry ingestion and data-platform capabilities, balancing performance, scalability, and reliability. You will translate distributed-system constraints into clear product requirements and user stories for high-availability, low-latency services. Key responsibilities include building and evangelizing APIs, tools, data structures, and access patterns to support internal teams and future AI/ML capabilities. Required skills include experience with cloud platforms, data infrastructure, SaaS networking, and distributed systems. Preferred technical knowledge includes Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, time-series databases, Kubernetes, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. The work focuses on connecting streaming telemetry infrastructure to broader cloud strategies for networking products.
What does a Product Manager earn in California?
Median $222500 from 327 postings across 57 companies.
Define and own a multi-quarter roadmap for telemetry ingestion and data-platform capabilities.
Lead planning and prioritization across engineering partners to balance performance, scalability, and reliability.
Translate distributed-system constraints and data requirements into clear product requirements and user stories.
Build and evangelize APIs, tools, data structures, and access patterns for internal product teams.
Design data structures and access patterns specifically for AI/ML models and analytics products.
Measure platform success through reliability, latency, scale, and adoption metrics.
Communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
What we're looking for
Must have a Bachelor's plus 7 years of experience, a Master's plus 4 years, or a PhD plus 1 year of related experience.
Must have 3+ years of product management experience with cloud platforms, data infrastructure, SaaS networking, or a comparable technical product area.
Must have experience defining a product roadmap and requirements for at least one backend, platform, data, or infrastructure capability delivered to production.
Must have experience partnering with engineering teams on APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, or cloud architecture.
Must have experience using product, platform, or operational metrics to prioritize work and evaluate outcomes.
Familiarity with streaming, messaging, caching, relational, or time-series technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, or PostgreSQL (preferred).
Experience with Kubernetes or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environments (preferred).
Experience defining data structures or access patterns for AI/ML models, analytics products, or autonomous agents (preferred).
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