Sr Software Engineer (Security Platform Engineering Team)
Description
Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". 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.
Role Summary
This role will report to the Senior Manager of Security Platform Engineering within the Splunk Global Security (SGS) organization to join a hardworking team of security engineers. As a member of the Security Engineering team, you will be responsible for crafting, developing and deploying software and solutions to improve Splunk’s security posture. You will have an opportunity to use your entire range of skills and interact with a number of teams within Splunk Security ranging from SOC, Incident Response (IR) and Forensic, Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM) and Cybersecurity Risk.
What you'll get to do
- Participate in the complete software development cycle: Understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate and deploy software
- Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues
- Engage in design and code reviews, and improve your knowledge of our customers’ experiences to prevent future problems
- Ensure the code is maintainable and the product is diagnosable and serviceable
- Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues.
Must-have Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience; Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience
- Very strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms
- Coding expertise in Python or Go
- Hands-on experience with Azure or AWS or GCP
- Ability to lead complicated technical decisions and mentor other junior engineers
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills including the use of associated tools
- Experience with CI/CD systems (Gitlab, Jenkins, etc), test automation frameworks, cloud automation (Terraform, etc), collaboration (Confluence, Jira, etc) and Kubernetes
- Ability to document your work for the benefit of the team
- Knowledge of REST, gRPC or similar communication paradigms
- Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production
- Strong communication and project management skills
- Innovative approaches to problem solving
What we offer
- A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers.
- A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team. We keep it real by being open and honest.
- Balance. We want you to be successful outside of work too. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and dedication, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.
- Fun. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful and a part of the team, and have a smile on their face while doing it.
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!