Description
Join Splunk as a mid-level Software Engineer in the Platform Engineering team, focusing on improving the software development lifecycle. You will build and operate backend services, developer tooling, and cloud-native solutions for the broader Splunk engineering community.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the complete software development lifecycle, including understanding requirements, designing, developing, testing, automating, deploying, operating, and maintaining software.
- Build reliable backend services, APIs, automation tools, and data processing pipelines.
- Develop and operate solutions using cloud services and cloud-native technologies.
- Partner with engineering teams, repository owners, and platform teams to introduce and improve shared tooling and standards.
- Improve the maintainability, observability, diagnosability, performance, and reliability of the systems owned by the team.
- Investigate and resolve issues affecting development workflows, pre-production environments, and production services.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to diagnose and resolve service and integration issues when needed.
Requirements:
- Professional software development experience with solid knowledge of software engineering principles and practices.
- Proficiency in Python or another programming language, with experience building maintainable, well-tested applications or services.
- Experience developing backend services, REST APIs, automation tools, or data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, source control systems, and automated testing.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with engineers and stakeholders across different teams.
- Experience with developer productivity, developer platforms, software development lifecycle tooling, or engineering quality initiatives is a plus.
What We Offer:
- A team of highly capable and dedicated colleagues across engineering, product management, and platform organizations.
- The opportunity to build meaningful internal systems that improve engineering reliability and productivity.
- A collaborative and supportive environment where technical rigor, pragmatic execution, learning, and cross-team partnership matter.
- Opportunities to influence shared engineering practices and improve how software quality is measured and managed at scale.
- Balance. We want you to be successful outside of work as well. We trust our colleagues to manage their time and commitments responsibly and believe that balance helps create a positive working environment.
- Fun. We want our employees to bring their best, treat others with respect, contribute to the team, and enjoy the work they do.