Principal Software Engineer
Description
Join us as we pursue our exciting new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly, we are committed to each other’s success.
Are you passionate about working on products that make a difference for your customers? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are powered by huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies?
Role
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Splunk Enterprise Security Team, you will be working with an analytics-driven SIEM that solves a wide range of security analytics and security operations use cases for security monitoring, advanced threat detection, compliance, and incident investigations. You will build tactical and strategic feature sets, keeping in mind the ever-increasing scalability, performance, and security requirements of the Enterprise. Additionally, you will identify and lead quality improvements and help to create faster delivery options. You will work closely with Product Management, UX, Architects, and Customers to shape the roadmap and build solutions which help customers monitor, detect, and protect against ever growing cyber threats. Working directly with customers is one of our core values. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering our engineers. Technologies used are Javascript/React and Python on the backend.
Responsibilities
- Operate as a technical lead for multiple teams/product areas.
- Drive the technical roadmap and strategic vision of the product on both cloud and on-prem, working closely with PM, UX , Architects, cross-teams, and customers.
- Ensure technical feasibility of features and lead discussions on non-functional requirements like (scale, security, operability, usability).
- Improve the engineering team’s code culture, guidelines and practices; including documentation, code review, secure coding, testing, and architecture.
- Develop new product features, clarify and improve designs, and help put together a plan for how to make it happen (using Agile Methodologies).
- Participate in customer engagements and partner concerns and drive overall resolution.
- Mentor and develop other engineers, share the work you are doing, and participate in code reviews.
- Achieve a deep knowledge of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real-world deployment scenarios to develop an understanding of which solutions will bring value to our customers.
- Collaboratively lead design sessions and code reviews, regularly contributing to architecture discussion.
Essential requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent training and work experience.
- A solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and the ability to own and deliver features end to end.
- Proficiency with Python, Java or a similar object-oriented language.
- Familiar with backend application development frameworks such as Django or CherryPy.
- Demonstrated record of managing complex customer issues (debugging, driving to resolution).
- Proven track record of designing, building, and operationalizing systems/services at scale.
- Experience in an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab).
Desirable knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Understanding of full stack development.
- Passionate about JavaScript/React and the Web as a platform - reusability, componentization, and building for scale.
- Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively work with others within a dynamic environment.
- Understanding of SQL and NoSQL database technologies at scale.
- Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
Opportunity at Splunk
- Opportunities to develop and grow as an engineer. We are always expanding into new areas, working with cloud stacks, open source projects and exploring new technologies
- Our internal technical training and company-wide hackathons.
- A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support.
- Breadth and depth. You are interested to work on an area that dynamically scales to meet the needs of Splunk’s offerings.
- You want to go deep into optimizing how we automate every manual process and tedious task we encounter.
- Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe that mentors help both sides of the equation.
- Fun. We have frequent group outings and team building events. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful and a part of the family, and have a smile on their face while doing it.
- Work life balance, with efficient work from home environments today and modern offices standing by for future times.
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.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!