Principal Software Engineer
Join us as we pursue our exciting vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. 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!
Are you passionate about working on products that have a positive impact on the technology world? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are running on huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies? If so, a role on the Splunk Security Intelligence team could be a great fit for you.
We have a unique career opportunity for outstanding engineers like you. You'll be on the frontlines of information security, building products to help connect the network of enterprise security operators facing off against the most sophisticated attackers in the world.
We are seeking a Software Engineer to help design, develop and deliver Splunk's Security Intelligence solution. The service collects security threats at scale from external sources. It detects unknown threats by running innovative stream processing and machine learning algorithms in near real-time, on vast amounts of internally collected data and signals.
About the Security Intelligence Team
We are a passionate team who cares deeply about our customers, our teammates and you. In this role, you will work directly with product management, our customers and other engineering teams. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering and serving our engineers as opposed to just directing them.
Our backend team works in a microservices-oriented architecture using modern technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda Functions, Gitlab CI/CD, Kafka, Pulsar, gRPC, Spark, among others. We write our code in Python and GoLang, and other languages are welcome.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Product Development team to advance the product and technical roadmap.
- Design, build and maintain our ecosystem of applications, APIs, and SDKs that connect our Security Intelligence platform with third party applications and services.
- Pay extra attention to non-functional requirements (Performance, Scalability, Reliability, High Availability etc.)
- Participate in an on-call rotation and incident retrospectives
- Participate in the software development lifecycle by writing code, tests, documentation, attending daily stand up and other meetings; and communicating effectively with peers and managers.
- Regularly lead design and code reviews, and participate in architecture discussions
- Be a mentor for the junior members of the team and provide technical oversight and guidance for them to grow and become strong engineers.
- Build healthy relationships with multi-functional teams
- Work with product manager to influence product feature definition
- Keep product quality top of mind by extensively using Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD), testing technologies (unit, functional, performance), and best practices to ensure that the product is of high quality while continuously deployed in the cloud to our customers
- Support our DevOps operation for production services in cloud infrastructure using modern tools and frameworks.
- BS EE or CS degree, 8+ years in the industry (or Masters and 6+ years of experience / PHD and 3+ years of experience)
- Proficiency in Python or GoLang (one or both required).
- Proven experience building and architecting web applications, services, and APIs.
- Experience with cloud service providers (AWS/GCP).
- Exposure to working with container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operator Framework) and Lambda functions
- Knowledge of distributed computing architectures and principles that solve for scalability, performance, redundancy and reliability
- Experienced with an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.)
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and to understand a wide variety of technical challenges to be solved
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to prepare documentation and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Background in developing products for the Security market a plus
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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About Splunk
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.
Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.
Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!
Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.
We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.
Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!
SF Only
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Non SF
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.
This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?
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