What you will do:

• Drive technology direction within the product area and set the bar for technical excellence and delivery.
  
• Lead architecture discussions regularly and propose solutions to address scalability, usability, and security.
• Lead sophisticated efforts from inception to completion. This includes collaborating with product managers and multi-functional engineering teams on the definition, prioritization, and overall project execution, and challenging product managers when needed.
• 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 senior engineers and constantly raise the bar on engineering practices across the team and organization.
• Participate in end-to-end architecture reviews and discussions with the broader team, playing an influential role in overall product design
• Collaborate with interaction designers and visual designers to create an intuitive user experience
• Identify and communicate standard ways of operating for engineering

What makes you a great fit:

• 11+ years of relevant industry experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 8+ 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
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools, such as Helm, Kustomize, or Terraform
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, containerd) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Helm)
• Self-starter who is comfortable taking the lead on a task, collaborating with other engineers to design and implement features
• Familiar with the agile software development process