# Staff Software Engineer - Splunk

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Krakow, Poland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer within the Foundations organisation, you will architect and deliver resilient, high-scale platform solutions that host Splunk's enterprise software across multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-premises environments.

You will balance hands-on distributed systems development with technical leadership, driving architectural decisions, establishing reliability standards, and mentoring engineers to power the next evolution of the Splunk Platform.

## Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain Splunk Platform components across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure) and on-premises infrastructure, focusing on scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.

- Oversee and participate in designing, implementing, testing, and deploying of distributed systems.

- Apply software engineering best practices in distributed systems programming, including debugging, performance tuning, and reliability engineering for complex systems like Kubernetes controllers, database platforms, and data replication.

- Define and improve service health indicators, observability, SLOs, RPO/RTO targets, alerting, runbooks, and end-to-end recovery testing.

- Lead incident diagnosis and learning, reducing operational risk and limiting customer impact through resilient design, automation, and recovery practices.

- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, promoting knowledge sharing and professional growth.

- Turn roadmap items into clear design, system boundaries, APIs, milestones, and engineering decisions.

- Lead design reviews and influence technical direction for the team’s roadmap and projects.

- Foster a culture of continuous learning and adaptability within an agile, fast-paced environment, encouraging innovation and exploration of new technologies.

## Minimum Qualifications

- 8+ years of professional experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems or SaaS platform infrastructure.

- Strong proficiency in Go and/or C++ for production systems development, with scripting experience in Python or Bash.

- Proven expertise building Kubernetes-native software (Custom Controllers, Operators) and deploying resilient applications across major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

- Deep understanding of concurrency, data replication, idempotency, partial failure modes, and eventual consistency.

- Proven track record of leading technical design reviews, author clear RFCs/design docs, and mentor engineering teams.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with experience collaborating across cross-functional engineering teams.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Hands-on experience scaling and running stateful workloads in Kubernetes (PostgreSQL, distributed NoSQL databases, caching layers, or object storage).

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/Jenkins), and service mesh/networking infrastructure (load balancers, API gateways, DNS, TLS).

- Practical knowledge of SRE standards, distributed tracing, alerting frameworks, and chaos/recovery testing.

- Experience driving technical deliverables in fast-paced Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- C++
- Python
- Bash
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- English

### Nice to have
- Terraform
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- PostgreSQL
- NoSQL databases
- SRE standards
- distributed tracing
- alerting frameworks
- chaos/recovery testing
- Agile

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