Software Engineer

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 the 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 vary.

REQUIREMENTS

• Very strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms
• Coding expertise in Python or Go
• Hands-on experience with Azure or AWS or GCP
• Ability to lead complicated technical decisions and mentor other junior engineers
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills including the use of associated tools
• Experience with CI/CD systems (Gitlab, Jenkins, etc), test automation frameworks, cloud automation (Terraform, etc), collaboration (Confluence, Jira, etc) and Kubernetes
• Ability to document your work for the benefit of the team
• Knowledge of REST, grpc or similar communication paradigms
• Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production
• Strong communication and project management skills
• Innovation mindset
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience; Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience

This role will report to the Senior Manager of Security Platform Engineering within the Splunk Global Security (SGS) organization to join a hardworking team of security engineers. As a member of the Security Engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, developing and deploying software and solutions to improve Splunk’s security posture. You will have an opportunity to use your entire range of skills and interact with a number of teams within Splunk Security ranging from SOC, Incident Response (IR) and Forensic, Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM) and Cybersecurity Risk.

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