Senior Software Engineer Observability Data Platform

Description

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, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other's success.

As applications and systems become more sophisticated and user experience is at high stake, observability - the ability to monitor and understand the systems and how they impact users, becomes one of the biggest challenges for engineering teams. We are building world-class tools to help engineers deliver better, faster, and more reliable applications.
About the Role

Splunk is looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Senior Software Engineer to join our Ingest Processing team under Observability Data Platform organization.

The Ingest Processing team is building a large scale, highly performant, available & reliable data processing pipeline. The system currently processes billions of data points per minute. You will work within a diverse, multi-functional team in a fast-paced environment to design & implement large-scale distributed systems, streaming data pipelines, API design, and advanced algorithms that power the Splunk products. Our engineering teams are small and highly impactful. You will learn from the best, help us architect and build applications of the future.
Responsibilities

• Lead, design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business milestones to deliver customer facing features.
• Build highly reliable, performant & scalable software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
• Collaborate with product owners and designers to iterate on the design and implementation of our systems.
• Work with PM to influence product feature direction including but not limited to prototyping innovative ideas.
• Participate & contribute to technical design & proposals.
• Ensure consistent code quality by coordinating activities of other engineers assigned to the same features or subsystems.
• Mentor junior engineers throughout the development process.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers.
• Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties as needed to ensure stable service delivery.
• Help the team estimate software deliverables across multiple sprints.

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent training or work experience.
• 6+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems.
• Experience in mentoring/leading junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant work experience in data processing technologies such as Kafka or Flink.
• Proficiency in Java 8+ and/or Go, familiar with the development environments.
• Experience driving technical designs for complex backend systems.
• Experience with DevOps practices and comfortability operating your own systems.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, RPC frameworks such as thrift, gRPC, cloud native development on AWS & Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written along with ability to work well in a team.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Cisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Cisco, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Note:

Base Pay Range

Base Pay Range: $138,800 - $241,000 per year

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!