Principal Software Engineer - Hyderabad, India - Splunk Inc

Description

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 passionate about our product and seeking 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 journeyAs applications and systems become more sophisticated 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.
About the Role

Splunk is looking for hardworking and creative full stack Software Engineers to join our Splunk Observability team who will work on systems that empower our customers to quickly detect and resolve their infrastructure and application issues.

You will be a key contributor and lead for the user facing web application for Splunk Observability Infrastructure Monitoring.

Splunk's Observability Suite is a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and Infrastructure Monitoring is one of the most used and popular products in this suite.

Responsibilities

Operates as a technical lead, solution architect & full stack developer of the team, leading technical roadmap and visionOwn and organize processes for the team such as sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinements, program increment (PI) planning, and more.

Work with leadership team to influence products and process strategiesUnderstand the business direction and is able to promote innovative ideas and acquire alignment with multi-functional teams; can influence PM on features, product direction and priority.

Collaboratively lead design discussions under technical purview, ensuring both functional & non-functional requirements (like scale, security, operability, usability, etc) are consideredLead the development new product features, clarify and improve designs, help put together a plan for how to make it happen; participate in code reviewBuild relationships with cross-area teams to effectively understand dependencies, gain alignments and set up collaborationsGrow senior engineers and technical leaders through design & code review, tech seminars, mentoring, pair-programming, and etc.

Take actions to improve the engineering team's engineering and operational practices

Requirements

Proficient in building large-scale and high throughput web applications including frontend and backend components, from architecture design to implementation and testing.

Track record as a senior technical lead with minimum 3 years' experience of leading teams.
Deep understanding of microservices and distributed application architectureRich Experience partnering with UI/UX, Product Management, QA, Doc Writer and other multi-functional teamsExpert in JavaScript or TypeScript; Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS; Familiar with one or more JS frameworks, such as React, Backbone or AngularExpert in JavaRich experience with 1 or more relational databases & NoSQL databasesSolid knowledge and rich experience in working with at least one cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure and GCPExpert in containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related majors; 12+ years of relevant proven experience