Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack, APM Observability

at  Splunk

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.
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 passionate about our product and seeking 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!
As applications and systems become more sophisticated and user experience is at high stake, observability - the ability to monitor and understand the systems and how they impact users, becomes one of the biggest challenges for engineering teams. We are building world-class tools to help engineers deliver better, faster, and more reliable applications.
We are looking for a principal engineer to join us in crafting the future of Application Performance Management (APM). Your role will be to primarily lead front-end development but also help with the delivery of full-stack/backend features. The APM team provides our customers with end-to-end visibility in their infrastructure by advancing tools in tracing, metrics, and telemetry.

REQUIREMENTS

• Proficient in building large-scale and high throughput web applications including frontend and backend components, from architecture design to implementation and testing.
• Track record as a senior technical lead with minimum 3 years’ experience of leading teams.
• Deep understanding of microservices and distributed application architecture
• Rich Experience partnering with UI/UX, Product Management, QA, Doc Writer and other multi-functional teams
• Expert of JavaScript or TypeScript; Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS; Familiar with one or more JS frameworks, such as React, Backbone or Angular
• Expert of Python, Java or Golang
• Expert of at least one RPC framework such as thrift and gRPC
• Expert of developing and working with thoughtfully crafted HTTP APIs, such as REST or GraphQL
• Rich experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases
• Solid knowledge and rich experience in working with at least one cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure and GCP
• Expert of containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related majors; 8+ years of relevant proven experience

ABOUT THE ROLE

Splunk is looking for enthusiastic and creative full stack Software Engineers to join our Splunk Observability team who will work on systems that empower our customers to quickly detect and resolve their infrastructure and application issues.
You will closely collaborate with designers, Frontend Architects, and Product Managers to craft and implement modern, delightful, and intuitive features that streamline the experience between multiple Splunk products. We are passionate about solving customers’ problems as well as building best-of-its-kind products and you will help us win in this fast-growing market.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Operates as a technical lead, solution architect & full stack developer of the team, leading technical roadmap and vision
• Work with leadership team to influence products and process strategies
• Understand the business direction and is able to promote innovative ideas and acquire alignment with multi-functional teams; can influence PM on features, product direction and priority.
• Collaboratively lead design discussions under technical purview, ensuring both functional & non-functional requirements (like scale, security, operability, usability, etc) are considered
• Lead the development new product features, clarify and improve designs, help put together a plan for how to make it happen; participate in code review
• Build relationships with cross-area teams to effectively understand dependencies, gain alignments and set up collaborations
• Grow senior engineers and technical leaders through design & code review, tech seminars, mentoring, pair-programming, and etc.
• Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties as needed to ensure service delivery quality
• Take actions to improve the engineering team’s engineering and operational practices