Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.
Role:
Applications are the lifeblood of organizations. They support the processes that engage customers, partners, and employees. Effective application management isn’t just a “nice to have” — it’s critical to the success of your organization.
Our goal in the App Deployment Team is to remove the barriers between data and action and provide people with access to informative, predictive, relevant, and actionable data via the Splunk platform. This team focuses on application management, which is integral in the adoption and successful use of Splunk’s platform.
We seek an extraordinary software engineer to drive the technical direction and implement the Splunk Cloud application management experiences. You thrive in a dynamic environment and have a proven record of software delivery. This role requires cross-team collaboration with our product management, user experience, and documentation teams, as well as technical leaders from other engineering teams.
**This position is based within the greater Boulder, Colorado area.**
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of long-term impact software in accordance with given requirements and existing system architecture
- Maintain existing technology stack and debug and fix issues
- Work closely with product management, architects, and the team to build exciting features, reusable components, and products.
- Analyze and optimize back-end code, and pursue simplicity, efficiency, reliability, and performance.
- Use independent judgment to take existing code, understand its function, and change/improve as needed.
- Understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying new systems to production.
- Lead code reviews of the product, and use your knowledge of customers’ experiences to dedicatedly prevent future problems.
- Follow SDLC process in Agile methodology.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience with a BS EE or CS degree or equivalent training or work experience.
- You have experience or an interest in working with regulated computing environments such as FISMA and/or FedRAMP and are enthusiastic about doing it better.
- This is a US-based position. US Citizenship is required and you must be working on US soil to be considered.
- Solid knowledge of Python, Go, or another modern programming language (most of our code base is written in Python).
- AWS and Azure experience.
- Working in Kubernetes systems with experience in Kubectl and Docker containers.
- Expertise working with thoughtfully designed Restful APIs and influencing API design choices.
- Experience developing, debugging, and performance tuning highly concurrent systems.
- Mastery of test-driven development, developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests.
- Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and verbal and written communication skills.
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, from engineering and QA 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.
- An opportunity to see the positive impact of your work on real customers.
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.