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Role Summary As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership and a passion for building secure, scalable secure solutions. This individual will help shape the direction of our security products, guide the development of innovative features, and ensure that our solutions remain at the cutting edge of security technology.
You'll apply your expertise in cloud and enterprise security, CI/CD, site reliability/DevOps and engineering leadership to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable products. You will also take ownership of key features, guide the team through architectural decisions, and lead the development lifecycle from design to deployment.
Meet the Team Are you passionate about working on products that make a difference for your customers? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are powered by huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies? Come join us on the Security Platform Services Group.
What you'll get to do - Support a culture of learning and growth by collaborating with and mentoring engineers. Help the team grow their technical expertise.
- Collaborate with your team to own major features and components from conception to delivery, ensuring that technical solutions meet business objectives, security requirements, and user needs.
- Demonstrate your understanding of CI/CD principles, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps to ensure that our cloud and enterprise security solutions enable our customers to compose, run and monitor playbook execution.
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure the security, stability, and availability of the SOAR production system and be ready to diagnose, tackle, and resolve production issues with urgency and efficiency, especially related to Site Reliability, CI/CD, pipelines, test automation and security.
- Deliver high-quality solutions and ensure alignment with product objectives. Be an advocate for SRE, CI/CD, test automation and scalability in all aspects of the product.
- Identify new technologies and techniques that improve CI/CD, test automation, performance, and scalability of the SOAR platform. Actively resolve potential issues before they impact customers or the platform.
- Collaborate to set the technical vision, expectations, and standards for the team.
Must-have Qualifications - Minimum 8+ years with a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
- Enterprise experience in software engineering with an emphasis on cloud security, security, infrastructure, or networking.
- Cloud and UNIX enterprise services offered, including secure access controls, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and secure APIs.
- Experience with at least one language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C , or similar) with deep experience in cloud-native development (microservices, containers etc).
- Experience with DevOps practices, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools for automated deployment pipeline
- Experience with automation tools like Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines
Nice-to-have Qualifications We've taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. "Nice-to-have" means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don't worry if you can't check off every box. We're not hiring a list of bullet points-we're interested in the whole you.
- Extensive experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, including monitoring and alerting, and performance benchmarking.
- Extensive experience with CI/CD, test automation and site reliability using GitLab and git-based tooling.
- Experience in leading incident response efforts and forensic analysis in a cloud security context
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
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Base Pay Range SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $174 350.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $157 315.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $139 280.00 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 .