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Engineering

Senior Software Engineer (Golang/C++) Operability Team

  • - Hybrid Remote
Join us as we pursue our innovative 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, our customers, having fun and most meaningfully, to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Role Summary

Our team is responsible for enhancing the overall operability of Splunk. We develop a service, which is acting as the source of truth for Splunk platform deployment topology. Your role involves designing solutions that align management of complex multi-clustered nodes while enabling smooth platform upgrades. You'll extend existing Splunk products, streamline administrator management experiences, and tackle challenges posed by diverse topologies. This role will involve working with both legacy and modern systems. 

 

If you are passionate about developing foundational software that enables flexibility and control across varied environments, this role is for you.

What you will do

  • Design and implement frameworks and APIs to discover and manage stack topology
  • Build and maintain foundational libraries that support our core monolithic system, ensuring that they are optimized for performance and reliability in large-scale deployments
  • Extend both our core monolithic system and modularized architecture nodes to provide information necessary for discovering deployment topology
  • Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and enhance your knowledge of customers’ experiences to prevent future problems
  • Make code maintainable and the product diagnosable and serviceable
  • Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues.
  • Own features from start to finish
  • Mentor junior engineers. 

Must-have

  • Coding proficiency in C++ 17 and above with the ability to quickly learn new languages, like GoLang.
  • Strong understanding of multi-threaded and multi-process programming.
  • Good understanding of Linux and Windows OS.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
  • Ability to work independently and be responsible for upholding schedules.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills as you’ll be working with multi-functional teams.
  • Experience modernizing or refactoring legacy systems, with an emphasis on maintaining backward compatibility.
  • Experience in developing distributed systems.

Nice-to-have

  • Comfortable defining and maintaining schemas and service contracts using YAML/JSON/Protos/OpenAPI
  • Comfortable writing tooling and tests in Python
  • Experience in developing applications in public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Experience in designing or development of observability and monitoring in distributed systems, using OTLP

What we offer

  • A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support.
  • A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team. We keep it real by being open and honest.
  • Balance. We want you to be successful outside of work too. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and commitment, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.
  • Fun. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful and a part of the family, and have a smile on their face while doing it.

 

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.

 

Note:

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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