Software Engineer, Front-end

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 in our mission 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 celebrating each other’s success.
Splunk’s data visualization team is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to construct insightful and inspiring user experiences. These experiences will tell stories of IT and Security operations, compliance, user behavior, demographics, changing trends in use of our products, answer our customers’ questions, and help them to ask the right questions about their data.

MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS

• You are passionate about web technology, reusability, componentization, and building for scale.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• You have skills in Typescript/Javascript, HTML, CSS and have experience developing full-featured client-side applications using front-end frameworks such as React/Redux,.
• Knowledge of browser internals like browser debugging tools, native DOM, Event APIs, browser quirks and ways to tune code for the best performance.
• You have experience with client-side data processing, rendering performance, and visualizations.
• You’re comfortable with command-line applications, source control, testing frameworks and other aspects of developing in large, distributed software teams.

EDUCATION:

• 5+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience

NICE-TO-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS

We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.

• Experience with svg, canvas, WebGL, and popular data visualization libraries such as d3.js, HighCharts, Leaflet/Mapbox, etc.

ROLE SUMMARY

In this role you will focus on building an intuitive data analytics user experience. Your work encompasses the intersection of data, engineering and design, utilizing modern web technologies to help our customers make informed decisions and find answers to their business questions.

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO

• You’ll help build world-class data analytics experiences.
• You’ll develop and maintain data visualization components used by our internal and external product teams to build dashboards or custom application development.
• You’ll develop modern user interfaces that are both desktop and mobile browser friendly and efficient.
• You’ll collaborate closely with product management, design, frontend and backend engineers to understand customer needs and translate them into product features.
• You’ll participate in development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems.
• You’ll maintain and improve existing code with a pride of ownership.