Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems, Splunk Observability
Description
About the Role
Responsibilities
- Follow the best software development practices, and hold the high engineering bar for the team by regularly leading design, code review and test plan reviews.
- Incorporate excellence in reliability, scalability, and performance in the design of distributed systems
- Lead or own the design of new systems and drive the implementations.
- Identify and drive the burndown of technical debt
- Identify improvement opportunities in areas of engineering excellence and operation excellence, and make them a reality
- Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties to ensure service delivery quality
- Debug and provide solutions or fixes to customer-reported issues or requirements.
- Helps team estimate work across sprints and quarters
- Contribute to grow junior engineers through design & code review, tech talks, mentoring, and pair-programming.
Requirements
- You are passionate about building, observing, and operating distributed systems at scale in production.
- You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.
- You have a solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in operating systems, networks, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design
- Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, both verbal and written
- A demonstrated capability for creative thinking, intellectual and entrepreneurial exploration
- Experience developing, debugging, and performance tuning highly concurrent systems
- Ability to lead complicated technical decisions and mentor other junior engineers
- Solid knowledge and production programming experience in at least one of Java/C#/Go
- Experience with test-driven development, developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit test, functional test, integration test, system test, or performance / load test
- Experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases.
- Prior experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related majors; 8+ years of relevant proven experience
Note:
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $174,800.00 - 240,350.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $157,320.00 - 216,315.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $139,840.00 - 192,280.00 per year
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 above, 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 and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!