Backend Principal Software Engineer, Observability - 30459

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 many 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, passion, and all the things that make you.

Because when you feel free to be you, it makes it a lot easier for us to be us.As applications and systems become more sophisticated and user experience is at high stake, observability - the ability to monitor and understand the systems and how they impact users, becomes one of the biggest challenges for engineering teams.

We are building world-class tools to help engineers deliver better, faster, and more reliable applications.

About the Role

Splunk is looking for an enthusiastic and creative Backend Principal Software Engineer to join our Splunk Observability team, who will work on systems that empower our customers to detect and resolve their infrastructure and application issues quickly.

You will collaborate closely with designers, Frontend Architects, and Product Managers to craft and implement modern, delightful, and intuitive features that streamline the experience between multiple Splunk products.

We are passionate about solving customers’ problems and building best-of-its-kind products, and you will help us win in this fast-growing market.

Responsibilities

• Operates as a technical lead, solution architect & Lead developer of the team, leading technical roadmap and vision
• Work with leadership team to influence products and process strategies
• Understand the business direction and is able to promote innovative ideas and acquire alignment with multi-functional teams;

can influence PM on features, product direction and priority.

• Collaboratively lead design discussions under technical purview, ensuring both functional & non-functional requirements (like scale, security, operability, usability, etc) are considered
• Lead the development of new product features, clarify and improve designs, help develop a plan for how to make it happen, and participate in code reviews.
• Build relationships with cross-area teams to effectively understand dependencies, gain alignments, and set up collaborations.
• Grow senior engineers and technical leaders through design & code review, tech seminars, mentoring, pair programming, etc.
• Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties as needed to ensure service delivery quality
• Take actions to improve the engineering team’s engineering and operational practices

Requirements

• Proficient in building large-scale and high throughput web applications, including frontend and backend components, from architecture design to implementation and testing.
• 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related majors or eight years and a Master's degree
• Track record as a senior technical lead with a minimum of 3 years' experience in leading teams.
• Deep understanding of microservices and distributed application architecture
• Rich Experience partnering with UI / UX, Product Management, QA, Doc Writer, and other multi-functional teams
• Expert in Ruby on Rails , Python, Ruby , Java or Golang
• Expert in at least one RPC framework such as thrift and gRPC
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools, such as Helm, Kustomize, or Terraform
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, containerd) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Helm)
• Rich experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases
• Solid knowledge and rich experience in working with at least one cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
30+ days ago