Software Engineering Technical Leader
About The Position
Splunk, a Cisco company, helps organizations build digital resilience across security and observability. Our team designs, develops, and operates highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed storage services that power cloud-native applications across Cisco. We build resilient services deployed across Kubernetes and AWS environments, with a focus on scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence. Our engineers work closely with engineering, architecture, product management, and other cross-functional partners to design solutions that simplify the customer experience while meeting demanding production requirements. In this role, you will remain hands-on while providing technical leadership across distributed storage and cloud-native services. You will contribute to architectural decisions, lead features and projects from design through production, and help establish strong engineering and operational practices across the team. Our engineers own the full service lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment, observability, on-call response, and continuous improvement. The team's portfolio spans graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services running on premises and across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience.
- 7 years of experience developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language.
- 7 years of experience designing and operating production database-backed services using at least one graph, relational, or NoSQL database, including schema evolution, transaction handling, backup or recovery, or performance tuning.
- 7 years of experience designing production distributed systems involving consistency, replication, partitioning, routing, or failure recovery.
- 7 years of experience delivering and operating containerized services through CI/CD on Kubernetes in a public-cloud or on-premises environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing and developing scalable, highly available distributed storage and key-value services.
- Experience building and enhancing cloud-native services using C++, Go, and Python.
- Experience developing software for Kubernetes-based deployments and containerized environments.
- Experience contributing to service architecture, technical design, and implementation decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate scalable, highly available distributed storage and key-value services in the cloud and on-prem environment.
- Build cloud-native services using C++, Go, Python, and related technologies.
- Lead small-to-medium features from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production validation, and contribute to larger initiatives spanning multiple teams.
- Develop clean, maintainable, secure production code and unit tests while helping establish strong coding and engineering practices across teams.
- Contribute to service architecture and technical design decisions with a focus on security, scalability, reliability, simplification, and user experience.
- Develop and operate software deployed in Kubernetes-based and containerized environments, including monitoring and observability capabilities that improve service reliability and performance.
- Proactively identify, prioritize, and resolve risks and complex issues in development and production environments.
- Lead postmortems and root-cause analysis, drive durable corrective actions, and help ensure effective on-call coverage and operational readiness.
- Apply secure coding practices, protect user privacy, and contribute to product and feature threat modeling.
- Partner with product management, design, engineering, architecture, and other cross-functional teams to understand customer needs and develop appropriate technical solutions.
- Scope work, provide reliable estimates, manage dependencies and workstreams, and communicate delivery risks and trade-offs to cross-functional partners.
- Influence the defined software engineering roadmap by bringing forward ideas for product innovation, engineering improvements, and unmet customer needs.
- Create technical design documentation and contribute to customer-facing or user documentation where appropriate.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, technical guidance, demonstrations, design sessions, and other knowledge-sharing activities.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
