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Principal Software Engineer, Backend (Vancouver, BC)

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.
 
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Role

Splunk builds software that lets you search, report, monitor and analyze live-streaming and historical data across the entire data spectrum, from IT to Marketing to Operations, all from one place and in real time. Getting a vast variety of massive data in and ready for analysis is never easy.
As a part of Data Management development area, the Platform Experience team builds a visual search and data analysis solution that enables Splunk users to monitor and analyze log event and metrics data and other time series data through simple and intuitive point and click actions including the selection of data sources to create interactive charts, application of filters and aggregations to gain insight into IT system’s metrics and performance, and finally to quickly identify and respond to any issues or anomalies in the data.

Meet the Products and Technology Team

Want to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are? Our products and technology team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a self-service Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics, full stack observability and real-time visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at splunk.com/careers/products-and-technology.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive the technical roadmap and strategic direction for Platform Experience backend services enabling Data Management products including Edge and Ingest Processors
  • Align technical design of current Platform Experience backend architecture with other products in Data Management portfolio for both Cloud and On-premise deployments
  • Provide high-level technical guidance and oversight
  • Ensure the technical feasibility of designs working actively to influence the same
  • Build, test, operate, and maintain customer-critical data management functionalities
  • Analyze and optimize for performance and scalability
  • Mentor other engineers and promote continuous learning, while maintaining a high bar for quality and delivering for customer
  • Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of development processes

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of backend development experience
  • Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms
  • Built and delivered backend services on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
  • Coding proficiency in Go (preferred) or other backend languages and the ability to quickly learn new languages
  • 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
  • Experience developing automated tests and profiling services to understand performance, scalability and reliability of services and components.
  • 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 (preferred)
  • Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production
  • Excellent problem solving skills and great attention to details
  • Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • Experience with automated software and system management and development tools
  • Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
  • Exposure to project methodology or work structures; understand project lifecycle
  • Experience in working with cross-functional teams (not just engineering)
  • Excellent communications and interpersonal skills

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. 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:

Base Pay Range

Canada

Base Pay: CAD 172,400.00 - 237,050.00 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 comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, wellbeing expense reimbursement, and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.

Splunk's Hiring Practices

Splunk turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges.

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