Senior Engineering Manager, Platform (Vancouver, BC)

Splunk; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager for Engineering to lead a dynamic team focused on building scalable data solutions. This role involves hiring and developing talent, resolving systemic obstacles, and partnering with various stakeholders to enhance product offerings. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in engineering leadership, particularly in large-scale data systems and CI/CD infrastructure. Join a collaborative environment that values diversity and inclusion, where your contributions will significantly impact how customers leverage data to drive business success.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams on large scale data solutions.
• Strong background in developing scalable systems and software.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop an engineering team focused on high-quality software delivery.
• Champion continuous improvement and mentor team members.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Data pipeline management

CI/CD infrastructure

Team building

Software development

Cloud technologies

Emotional intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job 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.

The Senior Manager for Engineering will lead critical services within our Platform umbrella. Success will be measured by your ability to build and lead your team as part of our overall engineering strategy. You will seamlessly integrate within our innovative culture and contribute to our excellent record for delivering market leading solutions. You are a seasoned leader with a demonstrated history building and leading both established and emerging engineering talent, while fostering an environment of inclusion, creativity, and innovation.

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.

We are looking for a proven, seasoned engineering leader to lead key elements of our customer data onboarding systems. You will build and lead an elite team of engineers who will be working on systems that will power the next generation of Splunk and enable ever deeper customer insights.

Role Summary

• Hire and develop an engineering team, focused on making our industry leading technology even more valuable to our customers.
• Diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software.
• Partner with your manager, architect, product manager, and peers to ensure alignment of your team’s work in delivering product improvements to customers.
• Champion an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor.
• Plan and support career development.
• Recruit and retain top talent.
• Be an advocate of scalable and extensible, recoverable, manageable architecture for Core products and services.

Ideal Experience

• Experience leading engineering teams working on large scale data pipelines, CI/CD infrastructure and processing systems.
• Experience developing and delivering scalable systems software solutions.
• Experience hiring and cultivating teams.
• Experience developing new products and infrastructure, either in small companies or within the context of larger organizations. A mix of start-up and bigger company experience is a plus.
• Experience working within geographically distributed organizations.
• Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices and processes.
• Consistent track record of delivering scalable, high performance, and high quality software systems.
• Broad understanding of various cloud development technologies and industry trends for enterprise-scale, distributed systems. Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL is a plus.
• Strong technical acumen, creativity, interpersonal skills, and emotional intelligence.
• Knowledge of public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure is a plus.

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.