Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (30753)

Splunk’s Cloud Infrastructure organization builds robust and resilient auto-scaling platform solutions for hosting Splunk's enterprise software. The teams are fast-paced, high-velocity, and use innovative technology. The focus is always on automation, solving sophisticated challenges that span across multiple groups within Splunk, ensuring smooth and expedient services to Splunk users.

We have a substantial AWS, GCP and Azure presence. This is an incredible opportunity to apply your existing cloud experience and drive the growth of the Splunk Cloud.

Experience Required

• Software Development and Data Structures/Algorithms. We code primarily in Golang and Ruby, and work with RESTful APIs.
• Cloud and container experience. Building and scaling secure services on different cloud providers.
• Unix/Linux. You will use a command line terminal frequently.
• Infrastructure or configuration management as code experience. You are familiar with some sort of config management or infrastructure as code, such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Amazon CDK, Pulumi, etc.
• Knowledge of technical excellence. You know continuous delivery, testing, security practices, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Problem Solving. You are able to fix a product outage, skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting anomalous system behavior, and figuring out the root cause of incidents.
• Desire to learn and adapt. Our team has many projects going on at once, and you'll have the opportunity to learn to navigate new code and features.
• Passion. We want you to actively own your work and be excited about your projects.

Nice to haves

• Terraform experience. Any prior work with Terraform is a plus.
• Kubernetes experience. Working in Kubernetes systems with experience in kubectl and docker containers.
• Puppet experience. You may write Puppet code and work within configuration management.
• AWS experience. Knowledge of Amazon EC2 including machine image management and storage, as well as an understanding of Amazon EC2 regional centers, availability zones, and HA strategies
• GCP or Azure experience is a plus!
• Distributed programming. Experience in working on distributed systems like databases, distributed file systems, distributed concurrency control, consistency models, CAP theorem is an added plus.

What we provide

• Opportunities to develop and grow as an engineer. We are always expanding into new areas and exploring new technologies.
• Fantastic teams. We have exceptionally skilled and dedicated peers and individual contributors in our organization and company.
• Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe that mentors help both sides of the equation.
• A stable, collaborative, and inclusive work environment. The teams work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team.
• Balance. We don't expect people to work 12 hour days. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and commitment, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.
• Fun. We are committed to having every employee want to do their best, and have fun while doing it!

We value diversity and inclusion 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.

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 comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.