Principal Software Engineer - 26925

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Are you passionate about working on products that have a positive impact on the technology world? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are running on huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies? If so, a role on the Splunk Security Intelligence team could be a great fit for you.

We have a unique career opportunity for outstanding engineers like you. You'll be on the frontlines of information security, building products to help connect the network of enterprise security operators facing off against the most sophisticated attackers in the world.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to help design, develop and deliver Splunk's Security Intelligence solution. The service collects security threats at scale from external sources. It detects unknown threats by running innovative stream processing and machine learning algorithms in near real-time, on vast amounts of internally collected data and signals.

About the Security Intelligence Team

We are a passionate team who cares deeply about our customers, our teammates and you. In this role, you will work directly with product management, our customers and other engineering teams. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering and serving our engineers as opposed to just directing them.

Our backend team works in a microservices-oriented architecture using modern technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda Functions, Gitlab CI/CD, Kafka, Pulsar, gRPC, Spark, among others. We write our code in Python and GoLang, and other languages are welcome.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Product Development team to advance the product and technical roadmap.
• Design, build and maintain our ecosystem of applications, APIs, and SDKs that connect our Security Intelligence platform with third party applications and services.
• Pay extra attention to non-functional requirements (Performance, Scalability, Reliability, High Availability etc.)
• Participate in an on-call rotation and incident retrospectives
• Participate in the software development lifecycle by writing code, tests, documentation, attending daily stand up and other meetings; and communicating effectively with peers and managers.
• Regularly lead design and code reviews, and participate in architecture discussions
• Be a mentor for the junior members of the team and provide technical oversight and guidance for them to grow and become strong engineers.
• Build healthy relationships with multi-functional teams
• Work with product manager to influence product feature definition
• Keep product quality top of mind by extensively using Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD), testing technologies (unit, functional, performance), and best practices to ensure that the product is of high quality while continuously deployed in the cloud to our customers
• Support our DevOps operation for production services in cloud infrastructure using modern tools and frameworks.

• BS EE or CS degree, 8+ years in the industry (or Masters and 6+ years of experience / PHD and 3+ years of experience)
• Proficiency in Python or GoLang (one or both required).
• Proven experience building and architecting web applications, services, and APIs.
• Experience with cloud service providers (AWS/GCP).
• Exposure to working with container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operator Framework) and Lambda functions
• Knowledge of distributed computing architectures and principles that solve for scalability, performance, redundancy and reliability
• Experienced with an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and to understand a wide variety of technical challenges to be solved
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to prepare documentation and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Background in developing products for the Security market a plus

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 employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!