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. **Role Summary** Splunk AppDynamics, a leader in observability solutions for both cloud and on-premises environments, empowers customers with end-to-end visibility across their entire application ecosystems, cloud, on-premises, or hybrid. Our team is dedicated to developing, maintaining, and supporting SaaS and on-premises offerings within the observability product suite. We're looking for a Principle Platform Engineer to build upon our application and data platform as we continue to innovate on application observability. We move fast and iterate quickly. We are passionate about solving customers’ problems. We have ambitious goals to build best-of-its-kind products. You will help the team win in a fast-growing market. If you are passionate about innovation and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you **Meet the Team (Optional)** Self-Hosted is the heart of the AppDynamics on-premises architecture. We provide the platform for applications to process millions of metrics on customers on-premises solutions. We provide solutions which can be self hosted on bare metal, VMware, ESXi, AWS, Azure and KVM. We help applications to ingest, process and store all the data that power the dashboards that our customers rely on for observing their infrastructure and their applications. **What you'll get to do** + Craft and build highly scalable platform solutions + Work with a team of extraordinarily capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support + Work in an open environment, work together to get things done and adapt to the team's changing needs + Leverage technologies including Kafka, Elasticsearch, Docker, and Kubernetes across different on-premises and cloud environments like AWS and Azure + lead critical initiatives for the organisation **Must-have Qualifications** + 15+ years of platform engineering experience in designing and developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and services. + Proficiency in GoLang, Python and Java programming language along with Shell scripting. + Solid understanding of tech stacks like container registry, **k8s ingress, certificates, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Helm Charts** + Hands on experience on different build pipeline like Jenkins/TeamCity, handling k8s workflows ( **MicroK8S** experience is a big plus), + Have built installers for virtualized and cloud based systems + Understanding of microservices design with expertise in Dockers and Kubernetes. + Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to multi-task and adapt quickly to changing requirements, scope, and priorities. + Optimize data pipelines, storage systems, and query engines for performance and efficiency. + Work closely with product teams, data engineers, software developers, and product managers to deliver on business goals. + Mentor team members in architecture principles, coding standard processes, and system design. + Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution. + Support CI/CD processes and automate testing for data systems **Nice-to-have Qualifications** We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you. + Added advantage of having an experience in working on Cloud Observability Space. + experience of front-end technologies + experience of other languages like NodeJS, etc **Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer** Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Note: