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** You will join a team that is responsible for developing and operating Splunk’s Kubernetes platform for multiple cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP. The platform enables service teams to easily build and operate micro services on this platform. You will play a crucial role in ensuring high availability, performance, efficiency, usability, and security of the platform as well as modernizing the platform to keep up with the industry trends. A little about us. Splunk is the key to enterprise resilience for the 11,000+ organizations that use our Unified Security and Observability Platform. We regularly appear on a lot of “Best Places to Work” lists, and we think it’s because we encourage our Splunkers to bring their whole, authentic selves. 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. Because when you feel free to be you, it makes it a lot easier for us to be us. 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! Are you passionate about working on critical systems to create tangible customer impact? Would you like the opportunity to work at a growing company that is changing the way that information is used to support business decisions? If this resonates with you, we would love to speak with you. Our team is a dynamic technology group with a mission to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. If you possess a passion for outstanding technology leadership and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you. We are building state-of-the-art capabilities, data processing and search systems, support tools, security frameworks and automation instrumentation that will greatly impact how our customers successfully use data to improve their businesses performance, scalability, profitability, and market strategies. **Role** + Participate in the complete software development cycle: Understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate and deploy software + Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues + Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and enhance your knowledge of customers’ experiences to prevent future problems + Make code maintainable and the product diagnosable and serviceable + Stay up to date with the latest developments in the field of cloud services, containerization and orchestration tools + Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues. + Ownership of features from start to finish; including writing documentation, soliciting feedback, scoping work and seeing it through to completion + Mentor junior engineers + Drive cross-functional discussions and strategic decisions related to the platform directions and roadmaps. + Improve engineering quality and operation excellence for the whole team. **Requirements** + Track record of roles with demonstrated ability to strategically plan and execute both incremental improvements and revolutionary changes. + Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms + Coding proficiency in Golang + Strong fundamentals and extensive experience with Kubernetes and managing large-scale Kubernetes environments + Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills including the use of associated tools + Experience with developing CI/CD systems and test automation frameworks + Ability to document your work for the benefit of the team + Knowledge of REST, grpc or similar communication paradigms + Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure and their corresponding SDKs + Experience with Kubernetes SDKs + Operational excellence: you think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production + Strong experience with Terraform, including writing, maintaining and implementing modules in a multi cloud environment **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience with helm chart lifecycle management and ArgoCD + Extensive experience working with distributed systems like databases, distributed file systems, distributed concurrency control, consistency models, CAP theorem is an added plus. **What we offer** + A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support. + 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. We keep it real by being open and honest. + Balance. We want you to be successful outside of work too. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and commitment, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment. + Fun. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful and a part of the family, and have a smile on their face while doing it. **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. Note: **Base Pay Range** Base Pay Range: $140,400 - $200,700 When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.