Staff Software Engineer (fix-term)

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 who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly, we are committed to each other’s success. Are you passionate about working on products that make a difference for your customers? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are powered by huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies? Role As a Software Engineering Technical Leader on the Splunk Enterprise Security Team, you will be working with an analytics-driven SIEM that solves a wide range of security analytics and security operations use cases for security monitoring, advanced threat detection, compliance, and incident investigations. You will build tactical and strategic feature sets, keeping in mind the ever-increasing scalability, performance, and security requirements of the Enterprise. Additionally, you will identify and lead quality improvements and help to create faster delivery options. You will work closely with Product Management, UX, Architects, and Customers to shape the roadmap and build solutions which help customers monitor, detect, and protect against ever growing cyber threats. Working directly with customers is one of our core values. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering our engineers. Technologies used are Javascript/React and Python on the backend. Responsibilities Ensure technical feasibility of features and lead discussions on non-functional requirements like (scale, security, operability, usability). Improve the engineering team’s code culture, guidelines and practices; including documentation, code review, secure coding, testing, and architecture. Develop new product features, clarify and improve designs, and help put together a plan for how to make it happen (using Agile Methodologies). Participate in customer engagements and partner concerns and drive overall resolution. Mentor and develop other engineers, share the work you are doing, and participate in code reviews. Achieve a deep knowledge of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real-world deployment scenarios to develop an understanding of which solutions will bring value to our customers. Collaboratively lead design sessions and code reviews, regularly contributing to architecture discussion. Essential requirements 5+ years of software development experience. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent training and work experience. A solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and the ability to own and deliver features end to end. Proficiency with Python, Java or a similar object-oriented languages Solid experience with JavaScript/React and the Web as a platform Demonstrated record of managing complex customer issues (debugging, driving to resolution). Proven track record of designing, building, and operationalizing systems/services at scale. Experience in an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab). Desirable knowledge, skills, and abilities Understanding of full stack development. Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively work with others within a dynamic environment. Opportunity at Splunk Opportunities to develop and grow as an engineer. We are always expanding into new areas, working with cloud stacks, open source projects and exploring new technologies Our internal technical training and company-wide hackathons. A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support. Breadth and depth. You are interested to work on an area that dynamically scales to meet the needs of Splunk’s offerings. You want to go deep int ... (truncated, view full listing at source)