Junior Software Engineer
Are you motivated by helping customers and developers succeed? Are you passionate about building scalable backend systems and API’s that are used for business critical applications? Do you want to work with other smart people who really care about their craft? Do you excel in an environment of continuous self-improvement and learning? We are looking for someone who is motivated to understand customer and developer pain points in Splunk’s App ecosystem. Join our Developer Ecosystem team as part of our app lifecycle management initiative to build fully automated systems to validate, publish and manage our.
Role
We imagine a world where anyone can build a Splunk app to extend the base functionality of the Splunk Cloud platform. As a Software Engineer on the App Health and Developer Edition engineering team, you will create products that help external developers take their App from ideation to development to test and all the way to publishing in Splunk's application marketplace. We are looking for backend engineers and full stack developers who thrive on working on both frontend and backend.
Your Responsibilities:
- Maintain and enhance our current AppInspect and CLI checks to move from 95% automation to 100%
- Maintain and enhance our App Review Portal built on Next.js
- Gain a deep understanding of the Splunk platform and App platform in order to reduce the friction for our customers to migrate and operate in our cloud environment
- Learn new technologies necessary to accomplish the business objectives
- Collaborate with our product security, UX designers, product management, platform engineering teams to focus on solving customer pain points
- Collaborate with senior engineers to improve our systems
- Build services with consideration for performance, scalability, reliability, high availability
Requirements:
- Experience with Python or any other modern backend programming language
- Familiarity wiyh Javascript or Typescript is a plus
- Having worked with modern UI frameworks and libraries (Next.js/React) is a plus
- Proven ability to pick up new technologies and concepts quickly, coupled with an unending desire to learn and improve.
- Strive to work in a team-first, collaborative environment.
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
- Highly self-motivated and disciplined.
- Familiarity with application containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes is a plus.
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) a plus.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or MIS or equivalent experience
What we offer
- A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support.
- A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team. We keep it real by being open and honest.
- Balance. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and commitment, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.
- Fun. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful and a part of the family, and have a smile on their face while doing it.
- 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.
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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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