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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? If so, a role on Splunk’s Security Analytics team would be a great fit for you.
Role
We are seeking a Software Engineer to help design, develop and deliver Splunk's User Behavior Analytics (UBA) security analytics solution that detects known and unknown security threats at scale using big data and machine learning techniques. Delivered on customer managed resources using Kubernetes and Spark to run innovative stream processing and machine learning algorithms in near real-time, UBA helps security analysts quickly identify and resolve threats.
We are a passionate team who care deeply about our customers and our teammates. In this role, you will work directly with Engineering Leadership, Product Management, our Design Team, our Customers and other engineering teams to help derive the best experience for the customer. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering and serving our engineers as opposed to just directing them.
Responsibilities
- Achieve a deep knowledge of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real world use-cases in order to better understand what solutions will bring value to our customers
- Develop new product features, clarify and improve designs, and help put together a plan for how to make it happen (using Agile Methodologies)
- Collaborate closely with Product Management and members of our team to design and create comprehensive end-to-end user workflows
- Keep product quality top of mind by extensively using Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD), testing technologies (unit, functional, performance), and best practices to ensure that the product is of high quality
Experience
Required:
- Java and/or Scala programming experience
- Experienced with an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab
- Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively work with others within a dynamic environment
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and to understand a wide variety of technical challenges to be solved
- A Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical field, and a strong record of academic achievement
Desired:
- Familiarity with streaming and distributed computing technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Impala, Postgres
- Exposure to working with container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operator Framework)
- Knowledge of distributed computing architectures and principles that solve for scalability, performance, redundancy and reliability
- Familiarity with Splunk’s Security products
What We Offer You
- A constant stream of new things for you to learn. We're always expanding into new areas, bringing in open source projects and contributing back, and exploring new technologies
- A set of exceptionally talented and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support
- Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation
- A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment
We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are an equal employment opportunity employer. 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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