Software Engineer, Performance (US Remote Available)

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role :

Are you passionate about learning new technologies and understanding how they work? Are you interested in an opportunity to work with an upbeat team to help drive its products to a new level? We are looking for a seasoned, creative Performance Engineer to help us focus on the scalability and performance of our products and build meaningful benchmarks that address customer experience.

At Splunk, each release of our software is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers. As a Performance Engineer, you’ll have a direct impact on our products’ success. You will collaborate with peers, field teams, and customers to understand and encapsulate the user scenarios into industry standard benchmarks. You will work with product management and interface directly with our customers to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. You will also drive projects to integrate benchmarking into our continuous integration and test automation frameworks.

Responsibilities :

Define, design and implement performance / scalability / reliability (PSR) benchmarks on Splunk Enterprise and Cloud products

Heavily contribute in the design and implementation of self-service tools for Splunk developers to find performance bottlenecks by themselves

Efficiently working with various profiling tools to identify performance and concurrency bottleneck, propose and implement optimizations to improve the Splunk products

Implement and improve sizing and capacity calculators for premium Splunk applications on the cloud

Demonstrated ability in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking

Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modeling of system behavior under load

Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools : flamegraphs, pprof, pstack, qmlprofiler, perf, nmon

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Requirements :

Passionate about finding software performance bottlenecks and optimize product code

Fluent in any of Python (C or Go would be a huge plus)

Knows the principles of distributed computing systemsComfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, Artifactory in terms of both tools and systems administration

BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.

mentoring / leading teams

Experience in SaaS, Microservice, Cloud Native software companies and projects

Nice to have :

Experience in solving problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated large-scale deployments

Experience with enterprise software capacity planning

Experience with data science and ML

Experience with GPU

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer :

At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Note : Base Pay Range

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area

Base Pay Range : $146,400.00 - 201,300.00 per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay Range : $131,760.00 - 181,170.00 per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay Range : $117,120.00 - 161,040.00 per year

Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and / or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.

Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https : / / splunkbenefits.com .

Salary : $117,120 - $161,040