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Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager, FDSE

  • - Hybrid Remote
You: Do you enjoy leading collaboratively cross-functionally to tackle hard business-critical technical problems? Are you passionate about making customers successful? Like rolling up your sleeves and exploring code, grooming backlog, building docs, or analyzing data to find patterns and hidden meanings? How about using your leadership and technical skills to groom technical members of varied levels? If these challenges excite you, consider taking the lead in Splunk’s Forward Deployed Software Engineering (FDSE) team, where diverse perspectives and skills come together to drive innovation.

 

At Splunk, we are looking for an engineering leader who champions customer-centric approaches to guide and expand our exceptional software engineering team. A leader adept at translating business problems and requirements into concise, actionable tasks for technical teams, with a focus on tenacious prioritization, market insight, and empowering decision-making. Must be agile-savvy, resilient, and influential, deeply versed in epics, stories, and lean principles.

 

Team Members: This SWAT team of Full Stack Developers helps provide Splunk customers immediate value by building proof solutions, workflows, and integrations. An opportunity to lead and work with highly talented and sought-after technical individuals.

 

As the Leader for the core FDSE function, you will partner with solution engineering, product and software engineering, partners, go-to-market, customer success to delight our customers with the value they get from our solutions. You will lead the EMEA FDSE Team and closely collaborate with your peers in APAC and AMER regions to coordinate the core service delivery and other FDSE projects across the global team. 

 

Responsibilities:

 

 * You will diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering fast-paced MLP (minimum lovable product) to the end-users and product owners.
 * Encourage the team by contextualizing the work in the greater business picture.
 * You will work with the team to maintain existing solutions, and groom a roadmap of impactful solutions to expand the Splunk integration ecosystem.
 * You will inspire the team to research and use AI-based solutions to improve products and operational  excellence of our organization.
 * You will serve as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor to cultivate an atmosphere of innovation and continuous improvement.
 * You will recruit, develop, and retain world-class developers for your team.
 * Build a culture of inclusion, transparency, continuous learning, growth, and sharing.

 

Requirements:

 

 * A proven leader with a growth mindset, experienced in coaching, mentoring, leading and uplifting technical teams.
 * Passion/Grit/Will: You are passionate about new technologies, everything software and product development best practices and enjoy continuous learning while demonstrating strong dedication to help uplift and grow others around you.
* Familiarity with a range of project and service management frameworks
* Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
 * Cross-functional: Collaborate optimally across functions, including product management, engineering, and sales, to identify strategic partnerships and improve Splunk product offerings. Lead team meetings and manage the flow of user stories through the engagement process.
 * Focus on the human aspect by understanding user needs and behaviors in product design and software development.
 * Bring a robust technical foundation in backend development, scalable data storage, distributed computing, and semantic open API design, coupled with a proven track record as a technical lead or advisor.
 * Prior contributions to AI-focused projects will be a plus
 * 2+ years of experience leading technical teams
 * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

 

Be Part of Our Journey!

 

We're excited to welcome a leader like you to our team, where your skills and passion will help shape the future of data and technology. Let's innovate together!

 

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.

 

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