Senior Software Engineer, Observability Platform
Description
Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.
Role Summary:
Splunk is looking for enthusiastic and innovative Software Engineers to join our Splunk Observability platform team who will work on systems that empower our customers to quickly detect and resolve their infrastructure and application issues.
About the Role:
You will closely collaborate with architects, product managers, and some of the brightest minds in the industry to design and implement modern, scalable, reliable systems that serve as the backbone of Splunk Observability products. We are passionate about solving customers’ problems as well as building best-of-its-kind products and you will help us win in this fast-growing market.
As applications and systems become more sophisticated and user experience is at high stake, observability - the ability to monitor and understand the systems and how they impact users, becomes one of the biggest challenges for engineering teams. We are building world-class tools to help engineers deliver better, faster, and more reliable and cost-effective applications. Join us in developing a distributed, real-time, multi-tenant streaming platform that allows customers and developers to analyze massive amounts of data from a multitude of devices, operating systems, logs, metrics, traces and more in a scalable and reliable way.
Meet the Products and Technology Team:
Want to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are? Our products and technology team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a self-service Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics, full stack observability and real-time visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at https://www.splunk.com/en_us/careers/products-and-technology.html
Responsibilities:
- Follow the best software development practices and hold the high engineering bar for the team by regularly leading design, code review and test plan reviews.
- Incorporate excellence in reliability, scalability, and performance in the design of distributed systems
- Lead or own the design of new systems and drive the implementations.
- Identify and drive the burndown of technical debt
- Identify improvement opportunities in areas of engineering excellence and operation excellence, and make them a reality
- Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties to ensure service delivery quality
- Debug and provide solutions or fixes to customer-reported issues or requirements.
- Helps team estimate work across sprints and quarters
- Contribute to grow junior engineers through design & code review, tech talks, mentoring, and pair-programming.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of related experience with a technical bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience; or 3 years and a technical Master’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.
- You are passionate about building, observing, and operating distributed systems at scale in production.
- You have a solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in operating systems, networks, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design
- Experience developing, debugging, and performance tuning highly concurrent systems
- Ability to lead complicated technical decisions and mentor other junior engineers
- Solid knowledge and production programming experience in at least one of Java/C#/Go
- Experience with test-driven development, developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit test, functional test, integration test, system test, or performance / load test
- Prior experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra). Proficiency with "Big Data" technologies such as Apache Druid, Presto/Trino, Apache Spark, or Apache Iceberg is highly preferred.
- Familiarity with other scalable data solutions like ElasticSearch, InfluxDB, Clickhouse, Redshift, or Snowflake is a strong plus.
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Note:
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $174,800.00 - 240,350.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $157,320.00 - 216,315.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $139,840.00 - 192,280.00 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 next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!