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Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager

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Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. 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. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

A Little About Us

The Splunk Operator team is at the forefront of creating next-generation solutions that empower enterprises to harness the full potential of Splunk in modern, containerized environments. Our team focuses on developing and maintaining the Splunk Operator, an open source product built in Golang that automates application lifecycle management on Kubernetes. Trusted by many Fortune 500 companies, SOK is pivotal in modernizing digital infrastructures across diverse industries. We value technical expertise, creativity, and a passion for distributed systems and cloud-native technologies.

What We’re Looking For

The Splunk Operator team is looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager (EM) to help lead, build, and mentor the team responsible for Product Development and maintenance across multiple Cloud Solution Providers and compliance environments for our on-premise customers. This EM will be a leader with expertise in building a highly collaborative, dynamic, and fun team environment. The EM will embody eagerness to create and own processes for enhancing team health, streamline hiring processes, and find industrious solutions to organizational impediments while leading the team to build secure product.

What You Provide

  • Foster growth. EMs will meet with team members on a regular basis, help plan and support career development, and recruit top-tier developers.
  • Leadership. EMs have technical leadership and management experience in software engineering.
  • Partnership. EMs have experience partnering with multi-functional team members to develop and maintain a well-defined roadmap.
  • Passion. EMs are passionate about motivating the team, fostering collaboration, and embodying excitement about projects.
  • Drive for automation. EMs constantly consider, "How can I automate this manual process?" and inspire teams to embrace this philosophy.
  • Operational excellence. EMs strive for collecting robust metrics, data, and monitoring information from our services. If an issue arises, the team is alerted before our customers notice.
  • Keeping calm and carrying on. EMs mentor teams on appropriately handling a product outage, identifying performance bottlenecks, and determining the root cause of incidents.
  • Organized and communicative. EMs track work in progress, facilitate team development process rituals, and lead by example.
  • Open and inclusive. EMs foster a culture of inclusivity, diversity, learning, psychological safety, mentorship, and collaboration across all engineering skill levels.
  • Technical experience. You are knowledgeable about standards related to security, performance, and disaster recovery. You also have an understanding of code development, branching strategies, and deployment pipelines.
  • Golang/Kubernetes experience. Experience with Golang/Kubernetes is a plus as most tools are written in this language, but not required.

What We Provide

  • Opportunities to grow as a leader. We are always expanding into new areas, and exploring new technologies.
  • A fantastic team. We have exceptionally skilled and dedicated peers and individual contributors.
  • A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. The teams work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team.
  • Balance. People are not expected to work 12 hour days. Balance helps cultivate a positive environment.
  • Fun. We like to do team building events every couple months in our group. We are committed to having every employee be respectful and a part of this team, and have fun while doing it!

Requirements

  • 10+ years actively developing and/or managing cloud-native technologies.
  • 5+ years of management experience and 12 years of professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrable foundation in microservices, software design for cloud, and leading software product development engineers and architects.
  • Experience leading globally-distributed teams across different timezones.

 

 

 

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. 

 

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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.

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are committed to equal employment opportunity. 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. Click here to review the US Department of Labor’s EEO is The Law notice. Please click here to review Splunk’s Affirmative Action Policy Statement. If you need assistance or an accommodation to apply or during the hiring process, please let us know by completing our Accommodation Request form.

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