Software Engineer (Go + Cloud)

Role

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.

Applications are the lifeblood of organizations. They support the processes that engage customers, partners, and employees. Effective application management isn’t just a “nice to have” - it’s critical to the success of your organization.

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Software Engineer to join our App Runtime team. Our area of expertise encompasses building a wide variety of 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.

This role requires cross-team collaboration with our product management, user experience, and documentation teams, as well as technical leaders from other engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience, including large-scale SaaS application development.
• Solid knowledge of Go in a production environment.
• Practical knowledge in Docker, Kubernetes and other container technologies.
• 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.

Nice to have:

• Python knowledge
• C++ knowledge
• AWS or Azure experience
• Terraform and Puppet experience
• Software security knowledge
• Understanding of computer networks
• gRPC protocol insight