Site Reliability Engineer

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 the 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.

Meet the Team:

Our cloud teams build robust and resilient platform solutions for hosting Splunk's enterprise software. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Splunk Cloud's Traffic Engineering team to help scale and secure the global Cloud networking infrastructure. Our Engineers are experienced in designing and building a secure network infrastructure and services that provide a critical foundation to Splunk's Cloud SaaS platform.

What you'll do

• Develop and deploy software that will help drive improvements towards the availability, performance, efficiency, and security of Splunk's services. Technologies include DNS, Cloud Connectivity, Load Balancing (IPVS, L4, L7), API Gateways, IP address management (IPAM), VPN and TLS infrastructure.

• Work with cloud providers to integrate their networking products into our ecosystem. Build a control plane to scale and secure Kubernetes deployments and their networking requirements on various cloud computing platforms (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure).

• Commit to automation . Passionately embrace and master new technologies to help automate routine tasks and free up time for innovation. You will be working with a variety of languages used in systems programming like Go, Python, Terraform etc.

• Distributed systems programming. Work on and debug distributed systems like CDNs, Kubernetes, databases, traffic, data replication, etc.

• Knowledge of technical excellence. Use continuous delivery, testing , and security standard methodologies.

• Operational excellence. Make decisions based on numbers rather than assumptions. If an issue arises, you strive to be alerted before our customers notice.

• Keeping calm and carrying on . Capable of brainstorming a product outage, skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting anomalous system behavior, and determining root cause of incidents.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Experience deploying production cloud networking and infrastructure solutions while adhering to industry-standard DevOps principles.

• Experience handling SaaS and/or On-prem applications for a large customer base.

• Experience with one or more of the public cloud providers i.e. AWS, Azure or GCP

• Experience coding with Python/Go.

• Experience with CICD (Gitlab, Jenkins and others) and automation (Terraform or equivalent) technologies and tools.

• Ability to mentor junior engineers on the team, provide technical direction, perform design/code reviews, and champion engineering best practices.

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work 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: $["Hiring Range: Non-Sales US1 Base Pay OR Sales US1 OTE"] per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay Range: $["Hiring Range: Non-Sales US2 Base Pay OR Sales US OTE"] per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay Range: $["Hiring Range: Non-Sales US3 Base Pay"] 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 ~~~ .