Staff Software Engineer, Data Orchestration

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Meet the Team

Are you interested in being part of a team tasked to build the next-generation industry-leading platform for machine data? We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Splunk's Data Platform - Data Orchestration (DO) team. You will be joining a team that is building with fast paced innovation, cutting edge technology and is central to Cisco Data Fabric vision. Your work will impact all components and services where searches are generated, stored, processed, and reasoned about across Splunk's suite of products and services. We give our engineers an environment in which they can contribute from day one while also providing learning and growth opportunities. You'll learn how our entire stack works, from data ingestion and storage to searching, reporting, and building dashboards, all in distributed environments. The work you'll do will directly impact the experience of our customers!

Your Impact

As a Technical Leader on the team, you will:

• Build high level design for multiple features by working in conjunction with other technical leaders and architects

• Lead a small set of engineers in development, execution and delivery of above features within Splunk release cycle

• Partner with Product team to ensure that features delivered make significant customer impact

• Be responsible for overall quality of the product by driving Developer Owned Quality mindset within the team

• Mentor and guide junior engineers on the team

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 7 years of related

  experience, or Masters + 6 years

  of related experience, or PhD + 3

  years of related experience

• Proven track record in building new services / features within a larger product in quick time working with cloud infrastructure services such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, etc.

• Hands-on professional experience developing and debugging on an object-oriented language like Golang, C++, Java etc.

• Agile and lean practices that enable CI/CD and a fast-paced environment for iterative product development

• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, software design, and architecture of modern distributed systems

• Highest sense of quality and performance for the products you develop and deliver

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills that will help navigate your way through working with multiple other teams within the company

• Strong ability to navigate through uncertainty, change and adapt as per the needs of the hour

• Burning desire to learn, adapt and succeed

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $183,800.00 to $263,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$183,800.00 - $303,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$163,600.00 - $269,800.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.