Senior Engineering Manager (US Remote) - 30412

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.

The Splunk Enterprise Cloud Management organization builds robust and resilient auto-scaling mission critical platform solutions for hosting Splunk's software and services.

The focus is always on automation, scalability, availability by solving sophisticated challenges that span across multiple groups within Splunk, and ensuring smooth and expedient services to Splunk users.

Our main stakeholders are internal engineering teams that depend on a stable infrastructure & configuration management system.

This is an incredible opportunity to use your existing leadership and cloud experience to drive the growth of the organization.

What we’re looking for

The Splunk Enterprise Cloud Management group is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (EM) to help lead, build, and mentor the team responsible for foundational Infrastructure services across multiple Cloud Service Providers and compliance environments.

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 services and tools for Configuration Management.

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.
• Cloud Service Provider experience . Experience working with different cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
• Puppet and Terraform experience . Experience with Puppet and / or Terraform is a plus, 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

• 5+ years actively developing and / or managing cloud-native technologies.
• 3+ years of management experience and 10 years of total professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrable foundation in microservices, software design for cloud.
• Experience leading globally-distributed teams of SWE and SRE across different timezones.
• Experience leading teams for cloud-native architectures (Microservices SOA, security, compliance, etc.) at scale.
• Experience managing teams of 8-10 people with measurable team and product success.
30+ days ago