Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". 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. Join us as we pursue our exciting new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people passionate about our product and seeking to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey! 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 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. **About the Role** Splunk is looking for enthusiastic and innovative Software Engineers to join our Splunk Observability team who will work on systems that empower our customers to quickly detect and resolve their infrastructure and application issues. 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. **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** + You are passionate about building, observing, and operating distributed systems at scale in production. + You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production. + You have a solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in operating systems, networks, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design + Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, both verbal and written + A demonstrated capability for creative thinking, intellectual and entrepreneurial exploration + 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 + Experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databases. + Prior experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP + Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related majors; 8+ years of relevant proven experience **Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer** At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Note: **Base Pay Range** SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area Base Pay Range: $174,800.00 - 240,350.00 per year California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts Base Pay Range: $157,320.00 - 216,315.00 per year All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area. Base Pay Range: $139,840.00 - 192,280.00 per year Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. **In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.** Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com .