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Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Join us as we pursue our disruptive 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 to each other’s success.
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 applications.

About the Role

Splunk is looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Senior Software Engineer to join our Ingest Processing team under Observability Data Platform organization.
The Ingest Processing team is building a large scale, highly performant, available & reliable data processing pipeline. The system currently processes billions of data points per minute. You will work within a diverse, multi-functional team in a fast-paced environment to design & implement large-scale distributed systems, streaming data pipelines, API design, and advanced algorithms that power the Splunk products. Our engineering teams are small and highly impactful. You will learn from the best, help us architect and build applications of the future.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business milestones to deliver customer facing features.
  • Build highly reliable, performant & scalable software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
  • Collaborate with product owners and designers to iterate on the design and implementation of our systems.
  • Work with PM to influence product feature direction including but not limited to prototyping innovative ideas.
  • Participate & contribute to technical design & proposals.
  • Ensure consistent code quality by coordinating activities of other engineers assigned to the same features or subsystems.
  • Mentor junior engineers throughout the development process.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties as needed to ensure stable service delivery.
  • Help the team estimate software deliverables across multiple sprints.

Basic Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent training or work experience.
  • 6+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems.
  • Experience in mentoring/leading junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 8+ years relevant work experience in data processing technologies such as Kafka or Flink.
  • Proficiency in Java 8+ and/or Go, familiar with the development environments.
  • Experience driving technical designs for complex backend systems.
  • Experience with DevOps practices and comfortability operating your own systems.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, RPC frameworks such as thrift, gRPC, cloud native development on AWS & GCP.
  • Experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written along with ability to work well in a team.
Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. 

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