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Role:
Are you passionate about learning new technologies and understanding how they work? Are you interested in an opportunity to work with an upbeat team to help drive its products to a new level? We are looking for a seasoned, creative Performance Engineer to help us focus on the scalability and performance of our products and build meaningful benchmarks that address customer experience.
At Splunk, each release of our software is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers. As a Principal Performance Engineer, you’ll have a direct impact on our products’ success. You will collaborate with peers, field teams, and customers to understand and encapsulate the user scenarios into industry standard benchmarks. You will work with product management and interface directly with our customers to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. You will also drive projects to integrate benchmarking into our continuous integration and test automation frameworks.
Responsibilities:
- Define, design and implement performance / scalability / reliability (PSR) benchmarks on Splunk Enterprise and Cloud products
- Efficiently working with various profiling tools to identify performance and concurrency bottleneck, propose and implement optimizations to improve the Splunk products
- Implement and improve sizing and capacity calculators for premium Splunk applications on the cloud
- Demonstrated ability in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking
- Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modeling of system behavior under load
- Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools: flamegraphs, pprof, pstack, qmlprofiler, perf, nmon
- Get certified in Splunk Fundamentals
Requirements:
- Passionate about finding software performance bottlenecks and optimize product code
- Experience in solving problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated large-scale deployments
- Expert in scripting languages (Python) and compiled languages (C/C++)
- Expert in distributed computing system and stack
- Comfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, Artifactory in terms of both tools and systems administration
- Experience with enterprise software capacity planning a huge plus
- Experience in SaaS, Microservice, Cloud Native software companies and projects a huge plus
- Experience with data science and ML a plus
- Experience with GPU a plus
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- 5-7 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
Note: 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 below, 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 comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, wellbeing expense reimbursement, and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.
Base Pay Range
Poland
Base Pay: PLN 2,400,000.00 - 3,300,000.00 per year
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