We are an engineering and product-focused company. Our engineers take a leading role in crafting, architecting, building, and testing our product. Engineers at Splunk have a wide impact, from developing new capabilities like federated search and analytics to working with customers to see their work be used to tackle real-world problems. You will be a part of Splunk’s Lakehouse team and work with other team members to deliver new capabilities to our data platform, extending Splunk’s capability to search and analyze data wherever it resides. **In this role, you will:** + Extend the Splunk platform to query new data lakes and provide further customer insights from their data + Write production-quality, high-performance distributed systems code + Build, test, operate and maintain customer-critical query functionality + Develop data platform applications and their service layer in cloud environments + Empower your ideas by proof-of-concept prototypes + Collaborate with engineers in the team to deliver efficient data processing capabilities + Innovate and contribute to the product roadmap + Be informed and creative – know about meaningful problems, devise new solutions **Ideal Experience:** + 2+ years of experience in software development with a focus on backend systems + Strong Java, Scala or C++ skills with distributed systems design and knowledge of OO and functional programming practices + Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and IaC (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) + Experience with CI/CD practices and container orchestration platforms + Passion for solving hard problems and exploring new technologies + Excellent team player with good communication and documentation skills + Experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar high volume data technologies is a strong plus **Education** + BS/MS in Computer Science, a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.