Veterans Preferred - Senior\/Lead Software Engineer

Company: Splunk
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 5, 2021

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. Job Description: Are you passionate about building scalable web applications in a microservice paradigm? Do you have a strong desire to build excellent experiences for customers? Ready to shake things up? Splunk continues to be on a tear while enjoying incredible growth year over year. With growth comes scaling opportunities and the need to take the friction out of our processes, platforms, and systems to drive scale, efficiency, and effectiveness. As a lead engineer, you would be driving the technical delivery for the web application team, within the IT Business Applications group. You will need to use your technical expertise and broad experience delivering features using Agile methodologies, specifically Scrum, to lead the team for this position. We use NodeJS (REST APIs) with React, Redux based UI, Amazon EC2 / ECS, NGINX, Docker, Jenkins, MySQL / Postgres, and Redis. What you'll do: Yeah, I want to and can do that: Deliver high quality, scalable, well-written code that is quickly understood, easily supported, and maintained by the team using standard methodologies. Help in our ongoing open sourcing initiative to publish code to the community outside of Splunk. Own and lead the team of developers comprising onsite and offsite members to ensure the development standards are being met and project work is progressing to meet project timelines. Develop microservices (in a distributed environment) exposing REST APIs, those are written in Node.js and also help to build React/Redux based web clients to consume them. Collaborate with internal product managers, architects, engineering managers, UX/UI designers, and business partners. Communicate and collaborate with team members clearly and precisely, verbally and written within the Scrum framework to meet sprint planning objectives. Mentor team members and peers to increase their skills or knowledge, and ultimately their effectiveness on the team. Work within the Agile delivery framework. Independently perform interviews to provide hiring recommendations based on technical competency and team effectiveness. Self-starter with the ability to take ownership and hold yourself accountable. Requirements: I've already done that or have that 8 years of experience in developing scalable and event-driven (syn/async) web applications in a highly distributed environment. 3 years of functional experience in crafting and building full-stack applications in NodeJS (REST APIs) with React, Redux based UI. 2 years of experience in leading a technical team and mentoring team members. Good knowledge of computer science fundamentals e.g. data structures, algorithms, and design patterns. Excellent knowledge and working experience with pub/sub messaging systems. TDD or BDD experience for Unit testing. Expert knowledge of databases, networking, security, privacy, and compliance for Web-based applications. Experience using Git, JIRA, Docker, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies Excellent verbal and written user documentation skills. Preferred knowledge and experience: These are a huge plus: Developer driven testing approach (no dedicated QA). Knowledge of Splunk. Having DevOps mentality. Experience in collaborating with remote team members. Education: Got it BS or MS in Computer Science/Information Systems/Business or equivalent experience required. What We Offer You: Wow, I want that. A constant stream of new things for you to learn. We're always expanding into new areas, bringing in open source projects and contributing back, and exploring new technologies. A set of extraordinarily hardworking, innovative, open, fun, and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering and QA to product management and customer support. Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation. A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment. We don't expect people to work 12 hour days. We want you to have a successful time outside of work too. Want to work from home sometimes? No problem. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and dedication and believe that balance helps cultivate an extraordinary environment This isn't a job - it's a life changer - are you ready? Splunk has been named one of San Francisco Bay Area's "Best Places to Work" by the San Francisco Business Times, ten years in a row. We offer a highly competitive compensation package and a plethora of benefits. Splunk is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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 for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Thank you for your interest in Splunk

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