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Engineering

Software Engineering Technical Leader- Front End

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. 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. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Sr Front End Software Engineer

Meet the Team
Join us as we pursue our 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. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
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 the Splunk Security Orchestration Automation and Response Team (SOAR) at Cisco might be a great fit for you.

Your Impact

You will combine deep frontend technical expertise with strong leadership and a passion for building secure, scalable solutions. You’ll shape the direction of our security products, guide the development of innovative features, and ensure that our solutions remain at the pioneering of security technology.
You will play a pivotal role in leading the technical design, development, and delivery of our Splunk SOAR security solution. This is a senior software engineering position where you’ll own features that drive the technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with multi-functional teams to tackle sophisticated challenges.
As a Frontend Developer, you will be instrumental in delivering top-quality Splunk security products. You will apply your expertise in Typescript, React, CI/CD, and engineering leadership to design, implement, and ensure the quality of the services you deliver. You will drive process improvement and collaborate effectively with a fast-paced distributed team to solve problems and implement new solutions.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Collaborate with your team to own major features and components from conception to delivery, ensuring that technical solutions meet business objectives, security requirements, and user needs.
  • Work with product managers, UX/UI designers, and other engineers to define feature requirements, deliver high-quality solutions and ensure alignment with product objectives. Be an advocate for CI/CD, test automation and scalability in all aspects of the product.
  • Support a culture of learning and growth by collaborating with and mentoring engineers, providing constructive feedback, and encouraging innovation. Help the team grow their technical expertise.
  • Collaborate to set the technical vision, expectations, and standards for the team. Hold the team accountable to those standards while fostering an environment that encourages teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure the security, stability, and availability of the SOAR production system and be ready to diagnose, tackle, and resolve production issues with urgency.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field with demonstrated ability in software engineering, emphasizing UI development.
  • 5+ years of experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, and UI frameworks such as React.
  • Strong understanding of HTML and CSS, with experience in building responsive and accessible web applications.
  • Experience with modern development tools and practices, including version control (Git), code review processes, and agile methodologies.
  • Collaboration skills, with the ability to work across customer success, sales, marketing, and engineering teams and influence senior leaders.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, sophisticated environment where priorities may shift quickly.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Extensive experience building & shipping enterprise-grade UI products that operate both at scale and on-prem.
  • Experience with Python and/or Django is a plus.
  • Experience with DevOps practices, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools for automated deployment pipelines.
  • Experience with UX/UI design principles and working closely with designers to create user-centric interfaces.
  • Experience in leading incident response efforts and forensic analysis in a UI development context.
Cisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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.
 
Base Pay Range: $173,100.00 - 241,000.00 per year
 
“As part of Cisco's integration of Splunk and our ongoing job mapping process, the job title for this position was updated on May 30th 2025. This change reflects our commitment to aligning roles across the organization while ensuring consistency and clarity. The responsibilities and expectations for this role remain unchanged.”
 
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
 
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
 
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
 
 

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Splunk turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges.

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