Software Engineer - Backend (AppInspect Team)

Engineering

San Francisco, CA

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, our customers, having fun and most importantly, to each other’s success.

As a member of the newly formed Splunk AppInspect team, you will help drive the engineering excellence of Splunk ecosystem. AppInspect ensures that your Splunk app is ready for production on your own Splunk Enterprise instance or for you to submit to Splunkbase.

You will influence our strategy by helping define our system architecture and the next wave of product features. If you want to have fun while building some phenomenal technology products alongside great people, we invite you to apply for this role.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement highly performant and scalable API services for app inspect product.
Collaborate closely with product managers, and engineers across the teams to refine and breakdown product requirements.
Design and implement an efficient test strategy for our services.
Take ownership and initiative to own and address issues promptly for our internal and external customers.
Become proficient in Splunk's core technologies and processes as they apply to application development.
Opportunity to mentor engineers and constantly raise the bar on engineering standards across the team and organization.

Requirements:

BS EE or CS degree; 5 + years related experience (or Masters and 4 + years related experience or PhD without experience)
Strong object oriented programming experience in languages such as Python, or Go. In this position you'll be mostly using Python.
Experience working with Docker, AWS, and Amazon EKS is nice to have.
Experience with an Agile DevOps engineering environment that efficiently uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab).
Familiarity with building Splunk apps and experience in the Application Marketplace/Ecosystem (e.g. ServiceNow Store, Atlassian Marketplace), for the certification process and tooling, is a plus.
Familiarity with web application frameworks such as Django and, client-side frameworks like (Vue, React) is a plus.
Self-starter, passionate and always looking for new ways to contribute to the team.

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.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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