Must have

• Python

• Go

• Shell

• Automation

• Cloud

• Terraform

• AWS

• GCP

• Linux

• Unix

• English (C1)

Nice to have

• Splunk

• Docker

• Kubernetes

Requirements description

• Desire to learn and adapt. Our agile team has a lot of projects going on at once, and you'll have the opportunity to learn to navigate the code and features. You'll constantly be learning new areas and new technologies.
• Passion. Our customers are passionate about Splunk, and we want the same from our engineers. We want you to actively own your work and be excited about your projects.
• Ability to work with multiple programming languages. We have code in several languages, ranging from Go to Python to Shell.
• Drive for automation. You constantly consider, "How can I automate this manual process?" You will use Terraform to manage various cloud infrastructure resources. An understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and declarative configuration languages as preferred.
• Knowledge of technical excellence. You know continuous delivery, automated testing , security methodologies, system performance, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Cloud experience. Building and scaling secure infrastructure on different cloud providers is a plus. You will use AWS and GCP.
• Operational excellence. Data excites you and you 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 in navigating through a product outage, skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting anomalous system behavior, and figuring out the root cause of incidents.
• Linux proficiency. Excited to apply system administration experience and comfort in developing or creatively addressing challenges via a linux/unix console.
• Experience. Eight or more years of related technical work in industry.
• Though not required, it is also awesome if you have experience in containerization such as Docker and Kubernetes, have built scalable secure services on cloud providers such as AWS, and have some Splunk expertise.

Offer description

Join us as we pursue our innovative 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, our 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!

We build robust and resilient auto-scaling platform solutions for hosting Splunk's enterprise software. Our teams are fast-paced, high-velocity, and use state-of-the-art technology. The focus is always on automation, solving sophisticated challenges that span across multiple groups within Splunk, ensuring smooth and expedient services to Splunk users. We have a substantial AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes presence of large-scale traditional & containerized systems. This is an incredible opportunity to utilize your existing cloud experience and drive the growth of the Splunk Cloud.

What we provide

• Opportunities to develop and grow as an engineer. We are always expanding into new areas, working with open-source projects and contributing back, and exploring new technologies.
• A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support.
• Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe that mentors help both sides of the equation.
• A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team.
• Balance. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and commitment, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.

Your responsibilities

1. We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help lead, design and build the next generation of our large scale Cloud offering. You will be working on the core compute platforms and infrastructure in the next generation of Splunk’s cloud offering.