Senior Software Engineer - Remote

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Senior Software Engineer

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision 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 most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will profoundly impact Splunk Cloud going forward. You will craft, develop, support, and have ownership of distributed services and systems that are critical for our customer’s success! You’ll have a tremendous opportunity to lead and instill best practices to more junior engineers while being challenged to grow yourself at a tremendous scale. Moreover, you’ll:

  • 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, and be responsible for instrumentation and monitoring of your services
  • Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and enhance your knowledge of customers’ experiences to prevent future problems
  • Develop sophisticated and maintainable code with focus on consistency and following the best practices.
  • Participate in rotating on-call duties for services you maintain.
  • Own features from start to finish; mentor junior engineers
  • Develop net-new services and integration points designed to run in multi-cloud, highly scalable environments.

Requirements:

  • 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, Python
  • Experience in working on distributed systems like databases, distributed file systems, distributed concurrency control, consistency models, CAP theorem is an added plus.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or containers echo systems building micro services-based applications and solutions.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills including the use of associated tools
  • Experience building applications using CI/CD and test automation frameworks
  • Ability to build design documents to share your ideas/proposals with the team and cross-functional partners.
  • Experience with REST, grpc or similar communication paradigms
  • Experience working with public cloud services providers- AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production
  • BS, EE, or CS degree; 8 + years related experience (or Masters and 6 + years related experience or PhD and3+ years demonstrated ability)

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Note: Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out below, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.

Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, an ESPP and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.

Base Pay Range

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area

Base Pay Range: $163,200.00 - 224,400.00 per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay Range: $148,000.00 - 203,500.00 per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay Range: $136,800.00 - 188,100.00 per year

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