Senior Software Engineer (Backend - GO)

Join us as we pursue our disruptive 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, our 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! 

Role:

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our  Application Development team. Our area of expertise encompasses building a wide variety of support tools for other developers to use in their respective Splunk stacks. We, as engineers, create the building blocks and/or environments for other engineers to implement and use. Your contributions will create a robust, adaptable and advanced user friendly development experience. Enrich and empower others to their fullest potential. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation and delivery of long-term impact software in accordance with given requirements and existing system architecture. 
• Maintain existing technology stack and debug and fix issues. 
• Work closely with product management, and architects and the team to build exciting features, reusable components and products. 
• Create, enhance and encourage robust test suites for all code, because you recognize the value of automated testing and continuous integration. 
• Integrate metrics and service level indicators into features you build so that you can monitor, improve, and scale out services horizontally. 
• Lead code reviews of the product, and use your knowledge of customer experiences to dedicatedly prevent future problems. 
• Follow SDLC process in Agile methodology. 

Requirements:

• Professional software engineering experience, including large-scale SaaS application development. 
• Proficiency in Go in a production environment. 
• Extensive knowledge in Docker, Kubernetes and other container technologies. 
• Nice to have: 
• Python knowledge 
• AWS or Azure experience 
• Terraform and Puppet experience 
• Software security knowledge 
• Understanding of computer networks 
• gRPC protocol insight 
• Good knowledge of operating system (preferably Linux) inner-workings. 
• Comfortable with tuning application performance and engineering for scalability. 
• Understanding what it means to craft software that is a part of larger microservice architecture. 
• Strong communication and comprehension skills, both verbal and written. 

What We Offer You:

• A constant stream of new things for you to learn. We're always expanding into new areas, bringing in open source projects and contributing back, and exploring new technologies. 
• A set of exceptionally talented and dedicated peers, from engineering to product management and customer support. 
• Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation. 
• A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment. 
• An opportunity to see the positive impact of your work on real customers. 

Some of our benefits:

• Life insurance.
• Private medical and dental insurance for you and your family through Medicover.
• Multisport card
• PWNY Perks offers 375 USD gross reimbursement per quarter for well-being expenses including fitness, health, legal support, care-giving, petcare, and family planning.
• Splunk provides 24/7 crisis support through the Employee Assistance Program. It also offers Modern Health, a mental well-being solution that provides digital courses, meditations, certified coaches and licensed therapists.
• In addition to regular holiday and vacation time, every year Splunkers get 4 Splunk-wide days, 5 fully paid sick days, and 30 paid days off in case of a disaster (e.g., global pandemic, war, tornado, etc.)
• Splunk offers 40 hours per year of paid time so you can volunteer for the causes that are closest to your heart.
• Donate to your favorite charities and nonprofits and Splunk will match your donation for up to USD$500 per fiscal year.
• Splunkers can enjoy free snacks and coffee when they come into our Krakow office.

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.