Senior Software Engineer – Observability Platform

Feedinkoo: Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Paid holidays

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Splunk is seeking enthusiastic Software Engineers to join our Observability platform team to design and build scalable, reliable systems that power our customers’ infrastructure monitoring and analysis. You’ll collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineers to deliver modern distributed solutions, emphasizing reliability and performance.

You will work on a real-time multi-tenant streaming platform, leveraging AWS/Azure/GCP, SQL/NoSQL databases, and big data tooling to analyze vast

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience with a technical bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience; or 3 years and a technical Master’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).

Responsibilities

• Follow the best software development practices and regularly lead design, code review and test plan reviews.
• Incorporate excellence in reliability, scalability, and performance in the design of distributed systems.
• Lead or own the design of new systems and drive the implementations.
• Identify and drive the burndown of technical debt.
• Identify improvement opportunities in areas of engineering excellence and operation excellence, and make them a reality.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, post‑incident reviews, and other operational duties to ensure service delivery quality.
• Debug and provide solutions or fixes to customer‑reported issues or requirements.
• Help team estimate work across sprints and quarters.
• Contribute to grow junior engineers through design & code review, tech talks, mentoring, and pair‑programming.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Code review leadership

Mentoring junior engineers

On-call experience

Test-driven development

Problem solving

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

AWS

Azure

GCP

Apache Druid

Presto/Trino

Apache Spark

Apache Iceberg

Elasticsearch

Redshift

Snowflake

Job description

Splunk is seeking enthusiastic Software Engineers to join our Observability platform team to design and build scalable, reliable systems that power our customers’ infrastructure monitoring and analysis. You’ll collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineers to deliver modern distributed solutions, emphasizing reliability and performance.

You will work on a real-time multi-tenant streaming platform, leveraging AWS/Azure/GCP, SQL/NoSQL databases, and big data tooling to analyze vast