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Original Job Post

Splunk · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer, Strategic Initiatives

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$163K/yr - $279K/yr

12+ years exp

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Comp. & Benefits

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Responsibilities

Gain a deep understanding of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real-world deployment scenarios to develop innovations and solutions that will bring value to our customers

Enhance the product, keeping scalability and performance considerations as a high priority

Lead and drive projects to completion with minimal direction

Partner with other leaders from architecture, engineering management, and product management on project requirements

Collaborate with members of our team to design and create durable and effective solutions

Help identify and develop ways to improve the team's productivity and efficiency by expanding on our existing tools and processes.

Keep product quality top of mind with automated testing

Become well-versed in Splunk's core technologies as they apply to application development

Mentor junior engineers as they develop their application development skills

Qualification

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Cloud Application DevelopmentCloudFirst ApproachAWSGCPAzurePythonGoC++CI/CDDockersContainersKubernetesDatabasesNon-RelationalTechnological LearningBackend DevelopmentDjangoAgile DevelopmentTest-Driven DevelopmentSplunkApplication DevelopmentMentoring

Required

12+ years of software engineering experience focused on cloud application development

Deep understanding of building products with CloudFirst approach (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

Proficiency with one of these languages: Python, Go, C++

Understanding of delivery models (CI/CD, Dockers, Containers, Kubernetes, etc.)

Good understanding of databases both relational and non-relational

Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly

Familiarity with backend application development frameworks such as Django

Working experience with design and engineering teams to plan, develop, and release software

Understanding of test-driven development (TDD)

Experience with an agile software development model

Preferred

Experience with Splunk's core technologies as they apply to application development

Mentoring experience with junior engineers as they develop their application development skills

Benefits

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Company

Splunk

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Splunk is a software company that provides operational intelligence software that monitors, reports, and analyzes real-time machine data.

Founded in 2003

San Francisco, California, USA

5,001-10,000 employees

https://www.splunk.com

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