Principal Software Engineer - Backend Observability - APM/RUM- Remote U.S./Canada

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Location SF/SJ/Seattle/Boulder/Remote/CanadaJoin us as we pursue our disruptive 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, weu2019re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each otheru2019s success.As applications and systems become more complex and user experience is at high stake, observability - the ability to monitor and understand the systems and how they impact users, becomes one of the biggest challenges for engineering teams. We are building world-class tools to help engineers deliver better, faster, and more reliable applications.We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Splunk Observability teams. As a technical leader in the team, you will closely collaborate with Architects and Product Managers to design very large scale distributed systems, streaming data pipelines, API design and advanced algorithms that power the Splunk Observability products.ResponsibilitiesYou will participate in the design, implementation, maintenance, and evolution of Splunk Observabilityu2019s backend systems.You will collaborate on and lead the ideation and development of new features and drive their requirements and implementation in Splunk Observabilityu2019s backend Java codebase.You will scale, deploy and operate Splunk Observabilityu2019s backend services in production environments and help improve engineering quality and operation excellence for the whole team.You will facilitate and plan performance benchmarking exercises with an eye towards easiness to scale and impact on cost-efficiency.With your domain expertise, you will make recommendations to influence the roadmap.u00A0You will participate in a team on-call rotation to ensure that our services are continuously available for our customersRequirementsSeveral years of experience building large-scale backend systems.Experience driving and collaborating on technical designs for backend systems with architects and peer engineers.Proficiency in Java 8 (or above) and familiar with the Java development environment.Leadership and mentoring skills and the ability to work with engineers and non-engineers of various skill levels.Experience with DevOps practices and comfortability operating your own systems.The ability to adapt quickly and to solve problems through uncertainty.Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.Passionate about building elegant and powerful tools to solve customer problems.Experience with GCP is an added bonus.It would help, but not required, if you have experience with the following systems - Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, Druid, Trino/Presto, AWS, and GCP.We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.(Colorado only*) Minimum base salary of $135,000.00. You may also be eligible for incentive pay equity benefits.*Note: Disclosure per sb19-085 (8-5-201 et seq).

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