At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead backend development and enhance security monitoring systems for enterprise clients.
- Company: Join a leading tech company focused on cybersecurity innovation.
- Benefits: Attractive salary, health benefits, remote work options, and growth opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with mentorship and career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in cybersecurity while working with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: 7+ years experience in software development, especially with cloud technologies and Python or Go.
The predicted salary is between 123750 - 151250 $ per year.
The Splunk Enterprise Security team develops a data-driven SIEM designed to streamline security monitoring, threat detection, and compliance workflows. Our platform helps enterprise customers monitor, detect, and protect against growing cyber threats across cloud and on-prem environments. Engineers partner closely with Product Management, Architects, UX, multi-functional teams, and customers to shape the roadmap and deliver significant platform capabilities. Working directly with customers is a core value, and our lean process empowers engineers to address sophisticated problems with measurable customer impact.
Your Impact
- Lead technical strategy and execution for multiple teams and backend/platform product areas across cloud and on-prem deployments, ensuring scalable, performant, reliable, secure, and maintainable systems.
- Own the technical roadmap and architectural integrity of backend services and data-processing workflows, bridging the gap between requirements and implementation using Agile guidelines.
- Raise engineering excellence through documentation, code review, secure coding, testing, observability, architecture standards, and CI/CD practices.
- Partner with Product Management, UX, Architects, multi-functional teams, and customers to resolve complex production issues, support customer concerns, and deliver solutions that improve security monitoring, threat detection, compliance, and incident investigations.
- Mentor engineers, lead design sessions and architecture reviews, and build deep knowledge of product architecture, deployment models, and real-world operating environments to advance platform evolution and customer value.
Minimum Requirement
- Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience, Master's degree with 4+ years.
- Experience with developing software for distributed systems, databases or query optimization.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Experience with Python or Go/Golang.
- Experience with AI tools (such as Claude/Codex) to drive development and testing efficiency.
Preferred Requirements
- Backend coding and system design experience.
- Experience writing code that has been released into production.
- Experience with performance benchmarking using tools like WPT.
- Experience with search technologies, data processing, or query execution.
- Experience or knowledge of Splunk Query Language (SPL).
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