Software Engineer, Structured Storage (C++/Golang) (North Carolina)

Cisco; North Carolina; Remote; USD 117,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves designing and maintaining robust, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power critical workflows. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like Golang and Kubernetes, contributing to the architecture and design of scalable software solutions. With a focus on collaboration and operational excellence, you'll play a key role in enhancing the platform's capabilities and ensuring high-quality delivery. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Arrangement

Incentive Compensation

Equity Awards

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software development with a technical degree.
• Strong skills in distributed systems and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain robust distributed systems with observability.
• Drive end-to-end delivery and participate in code reviews.

Skills

Golang

C++

SQL (PostgreSQL)

Problem-solving

Debugging

Test-driven development

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Job description

**Role Summary**

The Structured Store Team is part of Splunk Data Platform foundations organization, responsible for building and maintaining critical data storage infrastructure components and services that powers core workflows and applications. We also help to define the platform future by establishing the architecture, design patterns for common storage components that set the standard for how Splunk is scaled, optimized, and extended. Our tech stack includes Golang, C++, PostgreSQL, Terraform, and Kubernetes, and is constantly evolving. We operate both in on-premise environments, and major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP

**What You’ll Get to Do**

+ Design, build and maintain robust, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a multi-process environment with built-in observability capabilities.

+ Design, build and maintain common frameworks and APIs for platform storage services, used by a variety of core applications and use cases.

+ Participate in the development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems.

+ Participate in regular code and implementation design reviews.

+ Drive end to end delivery including owning the Quality aspects.

+ Demonstrate operational excellence by participating in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues, performing root cause analysis, setup and tune monitoring systems.

**Must-Have Qualifications**

+ 3+ years of related experience with a technical Bachelor’s or Master’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.

+ Experience developing and debugging software with Golang, C++ or other object-oriented programming languages, with the ability and interest to quickly learn new languages

+ Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in distributed systems.

+ Experience with SQL (preferably PostgreSQL) or NoSQL databases , with knowledge of scalability, performance tuning to handle production databases clusters at scale.

+ Experience crafting and building scalable software, with experience in enterprise software or cloud environments such as AWS.

+ Experience with test-driven development, writing various levels of automated tests, such as unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, system tests, or performance/load tests.

+ Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written, and working with multi-functional teams.

**Nice-to-Have Qualifications**

+ Troubleshooting knowledge of Linux OS and / or Windows from user and/or admin perspective.

+ Familiarity with Kubernetes and related tooling.

+ Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP and Azure, and cloud database and storage services such as AWS Aurora, RDS, S3.

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Note:

**Base Pay Range**

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area

Base Pay Range: $146,400.00 - 201,300.00 per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay Range: $131,760.00 - 181,170.00 per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay Range: $117,120.00 - 161,040.00 per year

Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. **In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.**

Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com .