Senior Splunk Engineer: Performance & Governance

Valiant Technologies LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks an experienced Splunk engineer to stabilize and optimize our Splunk environment, focusing on search performance, data reliability, usability, and governance in support of security and analytics requirements.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering in search optimization, pipeline reliability, knowledge object hygiene, and detection workflows, with collaboration across security and analytics teams to drive robust observability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security administration and engineering.
• Expert SPL tuning, indexing strategy, search optimization and performance troubleshooting.
• Proven experience with data pipeline reliability and ingestion stabilization.
• Familiarity with governance principles (knowledge object hygiene, schema evolution, retention) and lifecycle controls.
• Proficiency in Python or scripting for automation and advanced handling.

Responsibilities

• Improve search speed and efficiency across large Splunk datasets.
• Strengthen stability of Splunk data pipelines for exports and integrations and support real-time data flows where applicable.
• Review and rationalize knowledge objects (saved searches, lookups, dashboards) and define governance controls.
• Provide guidance on detection-as-code practices and CI/CD integration for security workloads.

Skills

Splunk admin

SPL tuning

Data pipeline reliability

Governance & lifecycle

Python scripting

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks an experienced Splunk engineer to stabilize and optimize our Splunk environment, focusing on search performance, data reliability, usability, and governance in support of security and analytics requirements.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering in search optimization, pipeline reliability, knowledge object hygiene, and detection workflows, with collaboration across security and analytics teams to drive robust observability.