Principal Software Engineer (31066)

Principal Software Engineer - Lakehouse Team

Join us as we pursue our ground-breaking new 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, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

You will be a technical leader of Splunk’s Lakehouse team and work with other team members to deliver new query capabilities to the platform, extending Splunk’s capability to search and analyze data wherever it resides. 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.

In this role, you will:

• Extend the Splunk platform to query new data lakes and provide further customer insights from their data
• Write production-quality, high-performance distributed systems code
• Build, test, operate, and maintain customer-critical query functionality
• Have a growth mindset, constantly learning and adapting to new technologies
• Empower your ideas by proof-of-concept prototypes
• Design and implement new features
• Analyze and optimize query performance
• Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and improve your knowledge of customers’ experiences to prevent future problems.
• Innovate and help drive the product roadmap
• Be informed and creative – know about meaningful problems, devise new solutions
• Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of continuous learning, while maintaining a high bar for quality and delivering for customers

Ideal Experience:

• In-depth knowledge and proven track record in large scale data processing technology, including data transformation, indexing, query optimization and processing, delivering valuable outcomes using data.
• Expert Java/Scala or C++ skills with distributed systems design and knowledge of OO and functional programming practices
• Exceptional computer science fundamentals and data structure knowledge
• Experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar high volume data technologies
• Ability to own product features end to end, from design and implementation to operations and continuous improvement
• Able to implement software engineering and testing best practices in the team
• Experience with Agile development, Continuous Integration, github, etc
• Passion for solving hard problems and exploring new technologies
• Excellent team player with good communication and documentation skills
• Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production.
• Must have 8+ years as a backend engineer

Education

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.

Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, wellbeing expense reimbursement, and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.