Senior Backend Software Engineer – Pipeline Infrastructure
| Company | Splunk |
|---|---|
| Location | New Mexico, USA, Oregon, USA, Texas, USA, Florida, USA, Georgia, USA, Virginia, USA, Colorado, USA, Maryland, USA, Massachusetts, USA, North Carolina, USA, Illinois, USA |
| Salary | $139840 – $240350 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 7+ years of related experience with a technical Bachelor’s or Master’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience developing software using Golang, C++, Java, or Python.
- Solid hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on public cloud platforms specifically AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of microservices fundamentals including Service Mesh using Istio, service discovery, deployment strategies, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Helm
- Proven experience crafting and building scalable software, with expertise in cloud environments and knowledge of continuous delivery, and security practices
- Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Eagerness to learn and adapt in a dynamic environment with multiple ongoing projects.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain robust, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a multi-threaded/multi-process environment.
- Analyze and improve the scalability, availability, and performance of Splunk’s indexing service and underlying infrastructure.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks in distributed systems, data pipelines, and multi-threaded performance scenarios.
- Define technical direction, author design documents, engage in hands-on implementation, and build consensus across teams for infrastructure components.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Develop tooling and automation to reduce manual effort, improve operational efficiency, and minimize human error.
- Establish and maintain processes for continuous monitoring, alerting, and auditing of systems.
- Drive development, delivery, and engineering hygiene practices within the team.
- Work closely with an amazing team and collaborate with a global engineering organization.
- Mentor junior engineers and help build domain expertise across the team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in solving problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated large-scale deployments
- Knowledge of Puppet and configuration management practices.
- Experience with CI/CD frameworks and Pipeline-as-Code such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab, Argo, Artifactory, etc.
- Familiarity with test-driven development, writing various levels of automated tests, such as unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, system tests, or performance/load test