Description
Cisco's Splunk Data Management organisation owns cloud-native services that help customers bring critical machine data into Splunk reliably, securely, and at scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will set technical direction for a hosted data ingestion platform, including service architecture, platform APIs, developer workflows, customer onboarding, and long-term platform evolution.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, build, and evolve Go-based cloud services and platform components on Kubernetes
- Drive designs that protect customer data through secure credential handling, reliable processing, failure recovery, and clear operational controls
- Own production quality for a multi-region ingestion platform through better observability, capacity planning, on-call participation, incident response, automated testing, and operational guardrails
- Mentor engineers across levels, lead design and code reviews, model high-quality technical decision-making, and grow the team's distributed systems and production engineering capability
Requirements:
- Bachelors + 8 years experience in professional software engineering, including ownership of production cloud services or distributed data systems
- 3+ years of professional Go/Golang development experience
- Experience designing and building scalable distributed cloud-native architectures for SaaS or data platforms
- Experience with distributed systems fundamentals such as concurrency, state management, leader election, scheduling, fault tolerance, retries, and eventual consistency
- Hands-on experience building and operating containerized services on Kubernetes
Preferred qualifications:
- Proven ability to drive architecture, execution, and technical decision-making in ambiguous, high-impact areas
- Experience leading other engineers to deliver complex, high-impact projects
- Experience with Splunk Cloud, data onboarding, observability, security analytics, or related enterprise data platforms
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Salary: $147,400.00 to $198,200.00 per year