Frontend Software Engineer

Join us as we pursue our exciting 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, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Role

Splunk’s Cloud Control Plane organization is looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to join a team delivering a unified user experience for our Enterprise Cloud offering. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple teams and services as part of a team developing the UI control plane for one of Splunks fastest growing products.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Principal Engineers on technical design and development.
• Own all aspects of project outcomes from design to delivery.
• Author technical design documents for review and integrate feedback for implementation.
• Implement new features, test, and analyze the performance of existing and new features.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence with unit and integration testing, following CI/CD patterns, standard security processes, and performance analysis.
• Lead regular code and implementation design reviews.
• Innovate and author the team’s platform roadmap.
• Learn, propose, and implement new technologies.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Be part of an impactful, highly collaborative, and lively team where mentorship and supporting fellow team members is the default.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s Degree; or 3 years and a Master’s Degree; or a Ph.D. without experience or equivalent work experience.
• More than 1-year of experience programming with a modern JavaScript framework like ReactJS.
• A proven understanding of TLS and SSL certificate management and token-based authentication is a plus.
• Experience with asset compilation, packaging, and delivery to a CDN.
• A proven understanding of data structures and algorithms
• General knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and experience working with public cloud provider APIs.
• Experience in working on distributed systems like databases, distributed file systems, distributed concurrency control, consistency models, CAP theorem is an added plus.
• A passion for automation, toil reduction, and software design with failure scenarios in mind.
• An understanding of operational excellence, SLI/SLOs and data-driven decision-making. You are excited by data and passionate about using it to drive new and improved processes.
• Passion and excitement for actively owning your work.
• Capable of navigating through a product outage, skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting anomalous system behavior, and resolving the root causes of failures.

What We Offer You

• The opportunity to work with a set of extraordinarily talented and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering and QA to product management and customer support — Splunk flourishes with disruption and diversity
• A constant stream of new things for you to learn and an opportunity for growth and mentorship. We believe in growing our employees through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation.
• A stable, collaborative, and encouraging work environment.

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are an equal employment opportunity employer. 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.