Senior Software Engineer

at  Splunk

Join us as we pursue our innovative 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 meaningfully, 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 critical systems to create tangible customer impact? Would you like the opportunity to work at a growing company that is changing the way that information is used to support business decisions? If this resonates with you, we would love to speak with you.
Our team is a dynamic technology group with a mission to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. If you possess a passion for outstanding technology leadership and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you. We are building state-of-the-art capabilities, data processing and search systems, support tools, security frameworks and automation instrumentation that will greatly impact how our customers successfully use data to improve their businesses performance, scalability, profitability, and market strategies.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering: Data Structures, Algorithms.
• Coding proficiency in C++ and willingness to learn new languages, especially Go
• Experience in working on distributed systems
• Experience in developing applications in public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Debugging and troubleshooting skills: diagnose memory leaks, performance and network issues.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Experience with CI/CD systems and test automation frameworks
• Experience with Kubernetes is advantageous
• Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production.

• Participate in the complete software development cycle: Understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate, deploy software.
• Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues.
• Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and enhance your knowledge of customers’ experiences to prevent future problems.
• Make code maintainable and the product diagnosable and serviceable.
• Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues.
• Own features from start to finish.