Principal Software Engineer-Observability Data Platform (US Remote)
Description
About the Role
Responsibilities
- Lead, architect, design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business milestones to deliver customer facing features.
- Build highly reliable, performant & scalable software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
- Collaborate with product owners and designers to iterate on the design and implementation of our systems.
- Work with PM to influence product feature direction including but not limited to prototyping innovative ideas.
- Lead & contribute to technical design & proposals.
- Ensure consistent code quality by coordinating activities of other engineers assigned to the same features or subsystems.
- Mentor junior engineers throughout the development process.
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers.
- Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties as needed to ensure stable service delivery.
- Help the team estimate software deliverables across multiple sprints.
Basic Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent training or work experience.
- 8+ years of professional experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written along with ability to work well within and across teams.
- Experience in mentoring/leading junior engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years relevant work experience in data processing technologies such as Kafka or Flink.
- Proficiency in Java 8+ and/or Go, familiar with the development environments.
- Experience driving technical designs for complex backend systems.
- Experience with DevOps practices and comfortability operating your own systems.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, RPC frameworks such as thrift, gRPC, cloud native development on AWS & GCP.
- Experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases.
Note:
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $203,200.00 - 279,400.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $182,880.00 - 251,460.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $162,560.00 - 223,520.00 per year
Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.
Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.
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