Description

You: Do you enjoy leading collaboratively cross-functionally to tackle hardbusiness-critical technical problems? Are you passionate about making customerssuccessful? Like rolling up your sleeves and exploring code, grooming backlog,building docs, or analyzing data to find patterns and hidden meanings? How aboutusing your leadership and technical skills to groom technical members of variedlevels? If these challenges excite you, consider taking the lead in Splunk’sForward Deployed Software Engineering (FDSE) team, where diverse perspectivesand skills come together to drive innovation.

 

At Splunk, we are looking for an engineering leader who championscustomer-centric approaches to guide and expand our exceptional softwareengineering team. A leader adept at translating business problems andrequirements into concise, actionable tasks for technical teams, with a focus ontenacious prioritization, market insight, and empowering decision-making. Mustbe agile-savvy, resilient, and influential, deeply versed in epics, stories, andlean principles.

 

Team Members: This SWAT team of Full Stack Developers helps provide Splunkcustomers immediate value by building proof solutions, workflows, andintegrations. An opportunity to lead and work with highly talented andsought-after technical individuals.

 

As the Leader for the core FDSE function, you will partner with solution engineering, product and software engineering, partners, go-to-market, customer success to delight our customers with the value they get from our solutions. You will lead the EMEA FDSE Team and closely collaborate with your peers in APAC and AMER regions to coordinate the core service delivery and other FDSE projects across the global team. 

 

Responsibilities:

 

 * You will diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from   delivering fast-paced MLP (minimum lovable product) to the end-users and   product owners. * Encourage the team by contextualizing the work in the greater business   picture. * You will work with the team to maintain existing solutions, and groom a   roadmap of impactful solutions to expand the Splunk integration ecosystem. * You will inspire the team to research and use AI-based solutions to improve products and operational  excellence of our organization. * You will serve as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor to cultivate an   atmosphere of innovation and continuous improvement. * You will recruit, develop, and retain world-class developers for your team. * Build a culture of inclusion, transparency, continuous learning, growth, and   sharing.

Requirements:

 

 * A proven leader with a growth mindset, experienced in coaching, mentoring,   leading and uplifting technical teams. * Passion/Grit/Will: You are passionate about new technologies, everything   software and product development best practices and enjoy continuous learning   while demonstrating strong dedication to help uplift and grow others around   you.* Familiarity with a range of project and service management frameworks* Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. * Cross-functional: Collaborate optimally across functions, including product   management, engineering, and sales, to identify strategic partnerships and   improve Splunk product offerings. Lead team meetings and manage the flow of user stories through the engagement process. * Focus on the human aspect by understanding user needs and behaviors in   product design and software development. * Bring a robust technical foundation in backend development, scalable data   storage, distributed computing, and semantic open API design, coupled with a   proven track record as a technical lead or advisor. * Prior contributions to AI-focused projects will be a plus * 2+ years of experience leading technical teams * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent   practical experience.

 

Be Part of Our Journey!

 

We're excited to welcome a leader like you to our team, where your skills and passion will help shape the future of data and technology. Let's innovatetogether!

 

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer: At Splunk, we believe creating aculture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smartthing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure ouremployees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work wherethey can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employmentwithout 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, veteranstatus, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or locallaws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent withlegal requirements.

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!