Software Engineer (US Remote Available)

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.

MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms
• Coding proficiency in one or more of the following languages with the ability to quickly learn new languages: Go(preferred), C++, Python
• Strong fundamentals of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
• Experience in working on distributed systems like databases, distributed file systems, distributed concurrency control, consistency models, CAP theorem is an added plus.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills including the use of associated tools
• Experience with developing CI/CD systems, test automation frameworks,
• Ability to document your work for the benefit of the team
• Knowledge of REST, gRPC or similar communication paradigms
• Knowledge of public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production

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 deploying and managing large-scale OpenShift and Kubernetes environments
• Experience with the Kubernetes operator pattern
• Experience with helm chart lifecycle management

ROLE SUMMARY

You will join a team that is responsible for developing and operating Splunk’s Kubernetes platform for multiple cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP. The platform enables service teams to easily build and operate micro services on this platform. You will play a crucial role in ensuring high availability, performance, efficiency, usability, and security of the platform as well as modernizing the platform to keep up with the industry trends.
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.

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO

• 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 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; Mentor junior engineers