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
Splunk AppDynamics a leader in observability solutions for both cloud and onpremises environments empowers customers with endtoend visibility across their entire application ecosystems cloud onpremises or hybrid. Our team is dedicated to developing maintaining and supporting SaaS and onpremises offerings within the observability product suite.
Were looking for a Principle Platform Engineer to build upon our application and data platform as we continue to innovate on application observability. We move fast and iterate quickly. We are passionate about solving customers problems. We have ambitious goals to build bestofitskind products. You will help the team win in a fastgrowing market. If you are passionate about innovation and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data this position is for you
Meet the Team (Optional)
SelfHosted is the heart of the AppDynamics onpremises architecture. We provide the platform for applications to process millions of metrics on customers onpremises solutions. We provide solutions which can be self hosted on bare metal VMware ESXi AWS Azure and KVM. We help applications to ingest process and store all the data that power the dashboards that our customers rely on for observing their infrastructure and their applications.
What youll get to do
- Craft and build highly scalable platform solutions
- Work with a team of extraordinarily capable and dedicated peers all the way from engineering to product management and customer support
- Work in an open environment work together to get things done and adapt to the teams changing needs
- Leverage technologies including Kafka Elasticsearch Docker and Kubernetes across different onpremises and cloud environments like AWS and Azure
- lead critical initiatives for the organisation
Musthave Qualifications
- 15 years of platform engineering experience in designing and developing highly scalable distributed applications products and services.
- Proficiency in GoLang Python and Java programming language along with Shell scripting.
- Solid understanding of tech stacks like container registry Kubernetes (mandate) k8s ingress certificates Elasticsearch Kafka MySQL PostgreSQL Redis Helm Charts
- Hands on experience on different build pipeline like Jenkins/TeamCity handling k8s workflows (MicroK8S experience is a big plus)
- Have built installers for virtualized and cloud based systems
- Understanding of microservices design with expertise in Dockers and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Ability to multitask and adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
- Optimize data pipelines storage systems and query engines for performance and efficiency.
- Work closely with product teams data engineers software developers and product managers to deliver on business goals.
- Mentor team members in architecture principles coding standard processes and system design.
- Ensure robust monitoring logging and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution.
- Support CI/CD processes and automate testing for data systems
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.
- Added advantage of having an experience in working on Cloud Observability Space.
- experience of frontend technologies
- experience of other languages like NodeJS etc
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.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!