Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Join us as we pursue our ground-breaking 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 meaningfully to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

About The Role

Be part of a full stack team whose mission is to build a user experience for the leading Observability platform built by Splunk. Splunk is the only company whose products have been named as leaders in both Security and Observability. You will contribute to the backend and frontend code to build and maintain the IT Service Intelligence product at Splunk.

This position will need to be physically located in the Hyderabad, India area.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop/implement features from scratch.
• Handle non-functional requirements like Responsiveness, Performance, High availability etc
• Regularly leads design and code reviews, and participates in architecture discussions
• Work with Product Managers to refine the requirements.
• Collaborate with interaction designers and visual designers to build features with an intuitive user experience
• Work with Quality team to define the scope for testing
• Helps teams estimate software deliverables, often across multiple sprint timelines.
• Work with Architect to refine the technical backlog and define technical debt
• Take ownership and initiative to own and address issues promptly for our internal and external customers.
• Become proficient in Splunk's core technologies and processes as they apply to application development.
• Opportunity to mentor Junior engineers and constantly raise the bar on engineering practices
• Help team achieve productivity by improving on process
  
  

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 5+ years and a master’s degree
• Good knowledge of web standards and modern browsers, responsive design, and of the full web technology stack.
• Experience in client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks (React)
• A strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in operating systems, networks, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design
• Excellent problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills, both verbal and written
• A demonstrated capability for creative thinking, intellectual and entrepreneurial exploration
• Experience developing, debugging, and performance tuning highly concurrent systems
• Extensive knowledge and production programming experience in at least one of Java/C++/Python
• Experience designing and developing REST-based services with well-defined contracts
• Self-starter who is comfortable taking the lead on a task, collaborating with other engineers to design and implement features
• Good knowledge with
• Familiar with the agile software development process
  
  

Nice to have skills

• Strong understanding of one of the major Cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience in working within a Continuous Delivery (CD) development model
  
  

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.