Principal Software Engineer, Splunk
Observability Data Platform
Data security & observability platform
Open for applications
Data security & observability platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To allow clients to focus on the business outcomes that data can deliver by helping organisations use their data to answer questions, take actions, and achieve business objectives
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent training or work experience
- 8+ years of professional experience building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written along with ability to work well within and across teams
- Experience in mentoring/leading junior engineers
Desirable
- 10+ years relevant work experience in data processing technologies such as Kafka or Flink
- Proficiency in Java 8+ and/or Go, familiar with the development environments
- Experience driving technical designs for complex backend systems
- Experience with DevOps practices and comfortability operating your own systems
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, RPC frameworks such as thrift, gRPC, cloud native development on AWS & GCP
- Experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases
What the job involves
- Splunk is looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Principal Software Engineer to join our Observability Data Platform organization
- The Data Platform is a large-scale, highly performant, available and reliable system that processes billions of data points per minute
- You will learn how our entire stack works, from data ingestion and storage to querying, working within a diverse, multi-functional team in a fast-paced environment to design & implement large-scale distributed systems, and advanced algorithms that power the Splunk products
- The work you’ll do will directly have a positive impact on the experience of our customers
- Our engineering teams are small and highly impactful
- You will learn from the best, help us architect and build applications of the future
- Lead, architect, design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business milestones to deliver customer facing features
- Build highly reliable, performant & scalable software to meet the needs of the largest customers
- Collaborate with product owners and designers to iterate on the design and implementation of our systems
- Work with PM to influence product feature direction including but not limited to prototyping innovative ideas
- Lead & contribute to technical design & proposals
- Ensure consistent code quality by coordinating activities of other engineers assigned to the same features or subsystems
- Mentor junior engineers throughout the development process
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers
- Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties as needed to ensure stable service delivery
- Help the team estimate software deliverables across multiple sprints
Our take
Splunk was founded to produce software for searching and analysing machine-generated data for clients. The platform provides live data insights and is an attractive option due to its flexibility, scalability and ability to process real time data.
The company has evolved significantly since being founded, implementing developments in augmented reality, machine learning and mobile technology. Further, the company's transition to the cloud has allowed it to provide new offerings, and proved its ability to move with market trends.
Acquired by Cisco in 2024, Splunk now benefits from Cisco's user protection, breach protection and threat intelligence capabilities. The company will continue to deliver its security products, and also has plans to enhance its portfolio moving forwards.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2007
$25m
SERIES C
Jan 2006
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Health Care and Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Education reimbursement
- Electric car charging stations
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Stocked kitchens
- Gym discounts/onsite fitness centers
- Pet insurance discount
- Student loan resources
- Cool workspace with collaborative environments
- 529 College Savings Plan
Company values
- Innovative: Splunk values people committed to improving the future
- Fun: Splunk believes in fostering a positive atmosphere and celebrating its successes
- Disruptive: Splunk is always looking for ways to be more efficient and better
- Open: Splunk values honesty and inclusivity, with an open-door policy
- Passionate: Passion for its customers and products is what drives Splunk to keep improving
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
Gary Steele
(EVP & GM of Splunk at Cisco, not founder)Was CEO and President of Splunk before it became a Cisco company. Previously CEO at Proofpoint and Portera, VP at Sybase, and Market Development Manager at Sun Microsystems.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Splunk
- Our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy is built on three key pillars: growing a diverse workforce, nurturing our culture of inclusion in the workplace, and driving positive change in the marketplace for Splunkers, customers and partners
- We are committed to recruit, retain and develop high-performing, innovative and engaged Splunkers with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We created the DEI at Splunk Council (DISCO) to set and track progress on diversity, equity and inclusion across all functions and geographies
- We have also implemented processes, tools and education to try to prevent unconscious bias across our hiring and talent recruitment processes. It has also given us a company-wide vernacular to label bias where we see it
- We know that Splunkers are made up of a million different data points. And we’re committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and making Splunk a place where everyone can thrive
- Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) provide community for underrepresented groups and allies, offering support, mentoring and networking opportunities. We now have nine employee-led ERGs, including Pride, Womxn +, Veterans, Somos (Latinx), Black Employees and Mentors (BEAMs), Disabled=*True, Pilipinx, Natives, and Neurodiversity
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