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Engineering

Principal Software Engineer - Backend

ES Principal Engineer Backend
Are you passionate about working on products that make a difference for your customers? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are powered by 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 Analytics team would be a great fit for you.
Team Splunk Enterprise Security is a sophisticated SIEM built atop Splunk’s data platform with lots of moving parts. We help thousands of clients as they identify and protect their assets from cyber threats, all over the world. On any given day, our software needs to handle thousands of users, petabytes of data, and unique usage patterns across different deployment topologies.
Splunk ES is at the forefront of data processing. As we take the product to address the next anvil of data challenges that include real-time streaming data processing, integration of disparate and distributed data sources, we need strong engineers to help lead us from the front. That’s where you come in. We are a passionate team who care deeply about our customers and our teammates. In this role, you will work directly with Product Management, our Design and other engineering teams to help derive the best experience for the customer. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering and serving our engineers as opposed to just directing them.
If staying technically challenged and learning from others is meaningful to you, you'll love our internal
technical seminars and company-wide hackathon.
Role
As a senior member of the team, you will evolve the architecture and design of the backend frameworks to meet the ever-increasing scalability and performance requirements. You will also evolve the future of SIEM solutions by designing, creating, testing, and maintaining products that directly support security analysts all across the world. You will directly influence the direction of our technology as well as mentor other members of your team.
Working directly with customers is one of our core values. In this role, you'll be able to meet customers as they share their experiences, get a first-person view of the state of the art Security Operations Centers, and collaborate with product management to define and craft new products that streamline analysts' investigations.
If staying technically challenged and learning from others is meaningful to you, you'll love our internal
technical seminars and regular, company-wide hackathons. Along the way, you will become proficient in Splunk's Search Processing Language (SPL) which will empower you to explore large data sets and to take on endless types of problems.
Responsibilities
● Achieve a deep knowledge of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real-world
deployment scenarios to develop an understanding of which solutions will bring value to our
customers.
● Take the scale and performance of the product using Splunk platform innovations, open-source,
and cloud tools and technologies.
● Take lead on projects with little to no additional direction from engineering/product leadership,
drive and help track them to completion
● Partner with leaders from architecture, eng management, and product management on project
requirements, designs, and development plans.
● Help identify and develop ways to improve our team's productivity and efficiency by expanding on
our existing tools and processes.
● Collaborate with members of our team on the design and implementation of frameworks and
backend components.
● Keep product quality top of mind by creating automated tests for the software that you help create.
● Become well versed in core Splunk technologies as they apply to application development
● Mentor junior engineers and interns as they develop their application development skills
Requirements
● 12+ years of software engineering experience focused on application development
● Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly
● Have a deep understanding of scalable distributed web application using open source or
proprietary technologies
● Proficiency with Python, Java or a similar language
● Familiar with backend application development frameworks such as Django or CherryPy
● Familiarity with orchestration and cloud stack and technologies like k8s, kinesis, Kafka
● Solid understanding of relational databases' (e.g. Postgres).
● Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly.
● Experience collaborating with design, engineering and DevOps teams
● Proponent of test-driven development (TDD).
● Experience with an agile software development model.
● Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
● Experience working on high performance, high volume analytics software
● Comfortable developing software on Linux, Unix, and Windows systems
● Familiarity with information security is a huge plus
What We Offer You
● A constant stream of new things for you to learn. We're always expanding into new areas,
bringing in open source projects and contributing back, and exploring new technologies.
● A set of exceptionally talented and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering and QA to
product management and customer support.
● Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership
opportunities.
● A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment.
Qualifications
● Requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a technical Bachelor’s degree; or
equivalent practical experience or 8 years and a technical Master’s degree; or a Ph.D. with 5
years experience; or equivalent practical experience.
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 for
employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

 

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