senior software engineer - California - Splunk Inc. id-8017

May 6, 2025

Description

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. 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. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

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We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to construct insightful and inspiring UI experiences for our flagship products - Splunk Enterprise UI and Dashboards. These experiences will tell stories of IT and Security operations, compliance, user behavior, demographics, and changing trends. You'll strive to simplify the creation and consumption of search and dashboard experiences by both advanced and beginner users in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Cloud, and to create tools and resources that aid in making beautiful, operational, and actionable experiences in order to democratize insights from Splunk data to the wider customer organization.

We give our engineers an environment in which they can contribute from day one while also providing opportunities for learning and growth. You'll work at the intersection of data, engineering and design with a cross-functional, agile team of designers, product managers and engineers to build innovative user experiences that directly empower our customers to take informed actions to help their business thrive.

What you'll do

You'll build intuitive data analytics experiences.

You'll collaborate closely with product management, user experience and backend engineers to understand customer needs and translate them into product features.

You'll participate in the development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems.

You'll maintain and improve existing code with pride of ownership.

You'll help drive the technical roadmap for front-end improvements.

You'll mentor and coach other engineers, share the work you are doing, and participate in code reviews.

You'll accelerate other engineers by guiding both short-term (strategic) and long-term (durable) solutions.

What you'll need

At least 5 years of experience working with web and/or client-side technologies.

Good experience with full stack and/or backend development.

Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills.

Nice to have some infrastructure experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Python, GitLab CI/CD.

You have expert skills developing full-featured client-side applications using modern Javascript/Typescript technologies such as React/Redux, , Storybook etc.

Knowledge of browser internals like Javascript engines, native DOM, Event APIs, browser quirks and ways to tune code for the best performance.

You're passionate about JavaScript and the Web as a platform, reusability, componentization, and building for scale.

You're comfortable with command-line applications, source control, testing frameworks, continuous integration and other aspects of developing in large, distributed software teams.

You are a role model for others, with high standards for code quality, test coverage, optimizing developer enablement, and sharing best practices.

You collaboratively lead design sessions and code reviews, regularly contributing to architecture discussions and team processes.

A passion for instrumenting/analyzing telemetry to make data-driven decisions that matter to our customers.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent training and work experience.

What We Offer You:

A constant stream of new things for you to learn. We're always expanding into new areas, bringing in open source projects and contributing back, and exploring new technologies.

A set of extraordinarily talented and dedicated peers, from engineering and QA to product management, design and customer support.

Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities.

A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment.

Work / life balance, and a flexible work environment. We trust you to be responsible with your time and attention, and believe that balance helps cultivate an extraordinary environment.

About the Team:

We are a highly collaborative team, working together in order to solve complex problems.

The types of problems you will tackle on Search Experience UI are highly visible and critical to Splunk's business.

Challenging problems on the team allow for plenty of personal growth opportunities via both feature and design work, as well as involvement in architecture discussions.

There are plenty of opportunities to drive technical improvements which improve the frontend developer 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.

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