Software Engineer

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, PostgreSQL

Job Description

Join us as we pursue our exciting vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. 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 have a positive impact on the technology world? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are running on 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 Intelligence team could be a great fit for you.

Our platform is built for security and fraud teams protecting critical information and assets from cyber attacks and exploits.

We have a unique career opportunity for outstanding engineers like you. You'll be on the frontlines of information security, building products to help connect the network of enterprise security operators facing off against the most sophisticated attackers in the world.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to help design, develop and deliver Splunk's Security Intelligence solution. The service collects security threats at scale from external sources. It detects unknown threats by running innovative stream processing and machine learning algorithms in near real-time, on vast amounts of internally collected data and signals.

About the Security Intelligence Team

We are a passionate team who cares deeply about our customers, our teammates and you. In this role, you will work directly with product management, our customers and other engineering teams. We have a lean process that focuses on empowering and serving our engineers as opposed to just directing them.

Our backend team works in a microservices-oriented architecture using modern technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI/CD, Kafka, Pulsar, gRPC among others.

Our Engineering Team is fully distributed and operates in the following timezones: Argentina Standard Time, Eastern Time, Central Time and Pacific Time.

Responsibilities

• Achieve a deep knowledge of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real world use-cases in order to better understand what solutions will bring value to our customers
• Develop new product features, clarify and improve designs, and help put together a plan for how to make it happen (using Agile Methodologies).
• Participate in the software development lifecycle by writing code, tests, documentation; supporting the sprint management process; and communicating effectively with peers and managers.
• Keep product quality top of mind by extensively using Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD), testing technologies (unit, functional, performance), and best practices to ensure that the product is of high quality while continuously deployed in the cloud to our customers
• Collaborate closely with Product Management and members of our team to design and create comprehensive end-to-end user workflows

Experience

• Proficiency in Java.
• Proven experience building web applications, services, and APIs.
• Experience with SQL databases like PostgreSQL. 
• Experience with cloud service providers (AWS/GCP).
• Exposure to working with container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operator Framework)
• Familiarity with an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and to understand a wide variety of technical challenges to be solved
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to prepare documentation and presentations.
• Background in developing products for the Security market a plus
• 4+ years of related experience with a technical Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.