Principal Software Development Engineer (Kubernetes Platform) - 32509

About the position

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's 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, problem-solving 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.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the complete software development cycle: Understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate and deploy software.
• Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues.
• Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and enhance your knowledge of customers' experiences to prevent future problems.
• Make code maintainable and the product diagnosable and serviceable.
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in the field of cloud services, containerization and orchestration tools.
• Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues.
• Ownership of features from start to finish; including writing documentation, soliciting feedback, scoping work and seeing it through to completion.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers.
• Drive cross-functional discussions and strategic decisions related to the platform directions and roadmaps.
• Improve engineering quality and operation excellence for the whole team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree.
• Track record of leadership roles in large tech companies with demonstrated ability to strategically plan and execute both incremental improvements and revolutionary changes.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms.
• Coding proficiency in Golang.
• Strong fundamentals and extensive experience with Kubernetes and managing large-scale Kubernetes environments.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills including the use of associated tools.
• Experience with developing CI/CD systems and test automation frameworks.
• Ability to document your work for the benefit of the team.
• Knowledge of REST, grpc or similar communication paradigms.
• Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure and their corresponding SDKs.
• Experience with Kubernetes SDKs.
• Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production.
• Strong experience with Terraform, including writing, maintaining and implementing modules in a multi cloud environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with helm chart lifecycle management and ArgoCD.
• Experience with Operator patterns in Kubernetes using Kubebuilder or OperatorSDK.
• Extensive experience working with distributed systems like databases, distributed file systems, distributed concurrency control, consistency models, CAP theorem is an added plus.

Benefits

• A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support.
• A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment.
• Balance. We want you to be successful outside of work too.
• Fun. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful and a part of the family, and have a smile on their face while doing it.
• Competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more.