Principal Fullstack Software Engineer

at  Splunk

Join us as we pursue our exciting 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, we are committed to each other’s success.
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?

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

10+ years of software development experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent training and work experience.
A solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and the ability to own and deliver features end to end.
Proficiency with Python, Java or a similar object-oriented languages
Demonstrated record of managing complex customer issues (debugging, driving to resolution).
Proven track record of designing, building, and operationalizing systems/services at scale.
Experience in an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab).

DESIRABLE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

Understanding of full stack development.
Passionate about JavaScript/React and the Web as a platform - reusability, componentization, and building for scale.
Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively work with others within a dynamic environment.
Understanding of SQL and NoSQL database technologies at scale.
Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.

ROLE

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Splunk Enterprise Security Team, you will be working with an analytics-driven SIEM that solves a wide range of security analytics and security operations use cases for security monitoring, advanced threat detection, compliance, and incident investigations. You will build tactical and strategic feature sets, keeping in mind the ever-increasing scalability, performance, and security requirements of the Enterprise. Additionally, you will identify and lead quality improvements and help to create faster delivery options. You will work closely with Product Management, UX, Architects, and Customers to shape the roadmap and build solutions which help customers monitor, detect, and protect against ever growing cyber threats. Working directly with customers is one of our core values. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering our engineers. Technologies used are Javascript/React and Python on the backend.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Operate as a technical lead for multiple teams/product areas.
Drive the technical roadmap and strategic vision of the product on both cloud and on-prem, working closely with PM, UX , Architects, cross-teams, and customers.
Ensure technical feasibility of features and lead discussions on non-functional requirements like (scale, security, operability, usability).
Improve the engineering team’s code culture, guidelines and practices; including documentation, code review, secure coding, testing, and architecture.
Develop new product features, clarify and improve designs, and help put together a plan for how to make it happen (using Agile Methodologies).
Participate in customer engagements and partner concerns and drive overall resolution.
Mentor and develop other engineers, share the work you are doing, and participate in code reviews.
Achieve a deep knowledge of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real-world deployment scenarios to develop an understanding of which solutions will bring value to our customers.
Collaboratively lead design sessions and code reviews, regularly contributing to architecture discussion.