Senior Software Engineer, Observability Platform (US Remote Available) at Splunk

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it’s our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role Summary

Splunk is looking for enthusiastic and innovative Software Engineers to join our Splunk Observability platform team who will work on systems that empower our customers to quickly detect and resolve their infrastructure and application issues.

About The Role

You will closely collaborate with architects, product managers, and some of the brightest minds in the industry to design and implement modern, scalable, reliable systems that serve as the backbone of Splunk Observability products. We are passionate about solving customers’ problems as well as building best‑of‑its‑kind products and you will help us win in this fast‑growing market.

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 and cost‑effective applications. Join us in developing a distributed, real‑time, multi‑tenant streaming platform that allows customers and developers to analyze massive amounts of data from a multitude of devices, operating systems, logs, metrics, traces and more in a scalable and reliable way.

Responsibilities

• Follow the best software development practices and hold the high engineering bar for the team by regularly leading design, code review and test plan reviews.
• Incorporate excellence in reliability, scalability, and performance in the design of distributed systems
• Lead or own the design of new systems and drive the implementations.
• Identify and drive the burndown of technical debt
• Identify improvement opportunities in areas of engineering excellence and operation excellence, and make them a reality
• Participate in on‑call rotations, post‑incident reviews, and other operational duties to ensure service delivery quality
• Debug and provide solutions or fixes to customer‑reported issues or requirements.
• Helps team estimate work across sprints and quarters
• Contribute to grow junior engineers through design & code review, tech talks, mentoring, and pair‑programming.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience with a technical bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience; or 3 years and a technical Master’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Proficiency with “Big Data” technologies such as Apache Druid, Presto/Trino, Apache Spark, or Apache Iceberg.
• Familiarity with other scalable data solutions like ElasticSearch, InfluxDB, Clickhouse, Redshift, or Snowflake.
• Passionate about building, observing, and operating distributed systems at scale in production.
• Solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in operating systems, networks, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design.
• Experience developing, debugging, and performance tuning highly concurrent systems.
• Ability to lead complicated technical decisions and mentor other junior engineers.
• Solid knowledge and production programming experience in at least one of Java/C#/Go.
• Experience with test‑driven development, developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit test, functional test, integration test, system test, or performance / load test.
• Prior experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Base Pay Range $139,800.00 – 220,000.00 per year.

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.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance