Description
Splunk a Cisco company is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an endtoend full stack platform made for a hybrid multicloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology but its our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience problemsolving skills and talent of course but also bring your joy your passion and all the things that make you you. Come help organizations be their best while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.
Role Summary
Were looking for an outstanding Senior Principal Engineer to lead and drive technical strategy and for Splunks AppDynamics onprem product line. In this role you will work across teams to define architectural direction solve sophisticated challenges and deliver bestinclass solutions for our customers.
Meet the Products and Technology Team
Want to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are Our team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a selfservice Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics full stack observability and realtime visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team meet our leaders and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at
splunk/careers/productsandtechnology.What youll get to do
- Lead the architectural vision and technical strategy for an industry leading observability solution.
- Drive innovation and influence the technical direction of key product initiatives.
- Collaborate with multifunctional teams including product management UX and operations to define requirements and deliver solutions.
- Serve as a mentor and technical leader guiding teams and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
- Optimize system performance scalability and reliability to meet customer needs.
- Engage with customers and stakeholders to understand use cases and feedback translating them into actionable insights.
- Stay current with industry trends identifying opportunities to incorporate groundbreaking technologies.
Musthave Qualifications
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures algorithms distributed concurrency control consistency models etc.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and building enterprisegrade onprem software solutions.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java C or Go.
- Proven experience with application performance monitoring (APM) tools or similar observability technologies.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure networking and security concerns in onprem environments.
- Track record of leading crossfunctional teams and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with 15 years of related experience or Masters and 12 years of related experience or PhD and 8 years of related experience
Nicetohave Qualifications
Weve taken special care to separate the musthave qualifications from the nicetohaves. Nicetohave means just that: Nice. To. Have. So dont worry if you cant check off every box. Were not hiring a list of bullet pointswere interested in the whole you.
- Experience with AppDynamics or similar APM platforms.
- Familiarity with cloudnative and hybrid deployment models.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).
- Handson experience with observability tools like OpenTelemetry.
- Background in designing products for highcompliance industries (e.g. finance healthcare).
- Contributions to opensource projects or technical community involvement.
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Splunk a Cisco company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin genetic information age disability veteran status or any other legally protected basis.
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