Software Engineer (L7 Traffic/Networking) (US Remote Available) - 29375

A little about us. Splunk is the key to enterprise resilience for the 11,000+ organizations that use our Unified Security and Observability Platform.

We regularly appear on a lot of Best Places to Work lists and we think it’s because we encourage our Splunkers to bring their whole, authentic selves.

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.

Because when you feel free to be you, it makes it a lot easier for us to be us.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!Are you passionate about working on critical systems to create tangible customer impact?

Would you like the opportunity to work at a growing company that is changing the way that information is used to support business decisions?

If this resonates with you, we would love to speak with you.Our team is a dynamic technology group with a mission to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone.

If you possess a passion for outstanding technology leadership and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you.

We are building state-of-the art capabilities, data processing and search systems, support tools, security frameworks and automation instrumentation that will greatly impact how our customers successfully use data to improve their businesses performance, scalability, profitability, and market strategies.

About The Role

As a Traffic Engineering L7 Software Engineer, you will join our dynamic team to architect, implement, and optimize our Layer 7 traffic management solutions using Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and other AWS / GCP / Azure network constructs.

You will play a crucial role in ensuring high availability, performance, and security of applications by managing traffic flows, load balancing strategies, and application delivery controls within a cloud-native environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in the development of features for our Service Mesh and edge router.
• Scale our Kubernetes footprint by running our edge network at scale.
• Operationalize Envoy, Istio, Kubernetes, Cilium, NLBs, metrics etc at scale
• Manage and deploy AuthN / AuthZ on our edge
• Think globally : Scale our ingest network across all our Point of presence across the whole world
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate L7 security policies and practices, such as WAF (Web Application Firewall) and API gateways, to protect against application-layer attacks.
• Participate in the complete software development cycle : Understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate and deploy software
• Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues
• 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

Requirements

• 4-5+ years of experience in software engineering or related roles
• Ideally Previous experience in cloud-native infrastructure
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering : data structures and algorithms
• Coding proficiency in one or more of the following languages with the ability to quickly learn new languages : Java, Go, Python, C++
• 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, test automation frameworks,
• 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
• Operational excellence : you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production

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.
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