Principal Fullstack (Python OR GO) Engineer - 26751

Company Description

Join us as we pursue our innovative 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 meaningfully, to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Job Description

As an Principal Engineer on Developer Experience Team, you will be at the heart of Splunk’s

engineering process building software that empowers engineering teams to develop and

deliver high quality products quickly. We are focused on solving the hardest, most

interesting challenges of developing and testing software at scale without sacrificing

stability, quality, velocity or code health.

We ensure Splunk’s success by partnering with engineering teams and developing

scalable tools and providing scalable infrastructure that help engineers develop, test,

debug and release software quickly. We impact Splunk Engineers and our customers by

increasing the pace of product development and ensuring our products are shipped with quality.

We are looking for candidates who share a passion for building scalable and robust

Frameworks and services for our CI/CD pipeline which enable and help

developers deliver quality software to customers quickly. 

Role

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Developer Experience Team you will-

• Drive the technical vision and strategy to help improve Developer Productivity across the Platform team.
• Design scalable platforms that enable developers to improve the edit/build/test flow .
• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, development productivity, and maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively with other engineers to solve the most complex technical problems. This involves mentoring, peer reviews, participating in technical design reviews, and complex issue troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms
• 5+ years experience working with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Gitlab, Github Actions)
• 10+ years of coding proficiency in one or more of the following languages with the ability to quickly learn new languages: Go, Python.
• Knowledge of typescript/javascript is a plus.
• Experience/Familiarity with test automation frameworks, code coverage, SAST tools. 
• Kubernetes/Docker experience.
• Observability/Opentelemetry is a plus.
• Knowledge of any one of the public cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure 
• 3+ years of experience developing, implementing, rolling out and evolving an Internal De Experience/Productivity platform.
• Experience setting technical direction and planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
• Ability to lead discussions about complex solution design tradeoffs, as well as the capacity to drive conflict resolution

What we offer

• A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support.
• A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team. We keep it real by being open and honest. 
• Balance. We want you to be successful outside of work too. 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 give it their all, be respectful and a part of the family, and have a smile on their face while doing it.

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.

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!