Software Engineering Technical Leader (Hybrid)
About The Position
The Search Experience UI team builds and improves Splunk’s search and dashboard experiences, helping customers turn machine data into actionable insights. Its work supports highly visible, business-critical products for both advanced and beginner users. The role works collaboratively with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to solve complex problems, shape features and designs, contribute to architecture discussions, and improve tools and practices for frontend engineers. The position builds intuitive analytics experiences for creating and using searches and dashboards in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. It partners with product, design, and backend engineering to understand customer needs and develop well-designed product features. The role shapes implementation plans and technical designs, contributes to documentation, testing, and ongoing support, improves existing code, and helps drive the frontend technical roadmap with an emphasis on reusable, scalable components and quality. It also mentors engineers and contributes to design sessions, code reviews, and architecture discussions. This is a hybrid role requiring both onsite and remote work. Specific onsite and remote days are coordinated with the team and manager.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of prior experience in web software development, or a master’s degree and 6 years, or a Ph.D. and 3 years.
- Applied experience building client-side applications with JavaScript or TypeScript and modern frameworks or libraries such as React, Redux, or Backbone.js.
- Applied experience using command-line tools, source control, testing frameworks, and continuous integration in software development.
- Applied experience mentoring engineers and contributing to design and code reviews.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in full-stack or backend development.
- Prior experience with infrastructure tools or workflows such as Python, GitLab, or CI/CD.
- Prior experience with browser internals, including JavaScript engines, the DOM, and browser APIs, and applying that knowledge to improve performance.
- Prior experience using telemetry to inform product or customer decisions.
- Prior experience applying AI tools to improve engineering workflows.
Responsibilities
- Build intuitive analytics experiences that help customers create and use searches and dashboards in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.
- Partner with product, design, and backend engineering to understand customer needs and turn them into well-designed product features.
- Shape implementation plans and technical designs, and contribute to documentation, testing, and ongoing support.
- Improve existing code and help drive the frontend technical roadmap, focusing on reusable, scalable components and quality.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to design sessions, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Help improve team effectiveness and the customer experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Paid holidays and a floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
- Paid birthday day off, year-end holiday shutdown, and personal wellness days.
- Paid vacation time for non-exempt employees; eligible exempt employees participate in a flexible vacation time off program.
- Sick time off, including carryover of unused sick time up to the stated limit.
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues.
- Optional paid volunteer days.
- Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales employees, subject to Cisco policies.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock unit grants, subject to vesting conditions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
