Software Engineering Technical Leader- Front End

Cisco; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in security technology seeks a Sr Front End Software Engineer for its SOAR team. You will develop secure and scalable solutions, leading technical design while collaborating with experienced professionals. This role requires strong expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, focusing on delivering top-quality user-centric products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UI development experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
• Strong understanding of web applications and responsive design.
• Experience with modern development practices and tools.

Responsibilities

• Own major features from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with user needs.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of learning and innovation.
• Lead technical design and collaborate across multiple teams.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

HTML

CSS

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

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.

**Sr Front End Software Engineer**

**Meet the Team**

Join us as we pursue our new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Are you passionate about working on products that make a difference for your customers? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are powered by huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies? If so, a role on the Splunk Security Orchestration Automation and Response Team (SOAR) at Cisco might be a great fit for you.

**Your Impact**

You will combine deep frontend technical expertise with strong leadership and a passion for building secure, scalable solutions. You’ll shape the direction of our security products, guide the development of innovative features, and ensure that our solutions remain at the pioneering of security technology.

You will play a pivotal role in leading the technical design, development, and delivery of our Splunk SOAR security solution. This is a senior software engineering position where you’ll own features that drive the technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with multi-functional teams to tackle sophisticated challenges.

As a Frontend Developer, you will be instrumental in delivering top-quality Splunk security products. You will apply your expertise in Typescript, React, CI/CD, and engineering leadership to design, implement, and ensure the quality of the services you deliver. You will drive process improvement and collaborate effectively with a fast-paced distributed team to solve problems and implement new solutions.

**Responsibilities will include:**

+ Collaborate with your team to own major features and components from conception to delivery, ensuring that technical solutions meet business objectives, security requirements, and user needs.

+ Work with product managers, UX/UI designers, and other engineers to define feature requirements, deliver high-quality solutions and ensure alignment with product objectives. Be an advocate for CI/CD, test automation and scalability in all aspects of the product.

+ Support a culture of learning and growth by collaborating with and mentoring engineers, providing constructive feedback, and encouraging innovation. Help the team grow their technical expertise.

+ Collaborate to set the technical vision, expectations, and standards for the team. Hold the team accountable to those standards while fostering an environment that encourages teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement.

+ Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure the security, stability, and availability of the SOAR production system and be ready to diagnose, tackle, and resolve production issues with urgency.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field with demonstrated ability in software engineering, emphasizing UI development.

+ 5+ years of experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, and UI frameworks such as React.

+ Strong understanding of HTML and CSS, with experience in building responsive and accessible web applications.

+ Experience with modern development tools and practices, including version control (Git), code review processes, and agile methodologies.

+ Collaboration skills, with the ability to work across customer success, sales, marketing, and engineering teams and influence senior leaders.

+ Comfortable in a fast-paced, sophisticated environment where priorities may shift quickly.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Extensive experience building & shipping enterprise-grade UI products that operate both at scale and on-prem.

+ Experience with Python and/or Django is a plus.

+ Experience with DevOps practices, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools for automated deployment pipelines.

+ Experience with UX/UI design principles and working closely with designers to create user-centric interfaces.

+ Experience in leading incident response efforts and forensic analysis in a UI development context.

**Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

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.