Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platforms (Splunk Framework & Runtime Services)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Software Engineer focused on Splunk Framework & Runtime Services (internal developer platforms)

• Focus: Scalable developer platforms, backend services, and runtime tooling for multi-tenant Kubernetes

Description

You will design and develop foundational tools, frameworks, and services that help Splunk engineering teams build and deploy applications efficiently at scale. The work spans distributed systems and Kubernetes-based infrastructure across public clouds and on-premises environments, with a strong emphasis on improving developer productivity and platform reliability. You will contribute through architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, production troubleshooting, and a compensated on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable developer platforms by developing backend services, APIs, tools, and frameworks in Go and Python

• Advance cloud-native infrastructure to support workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises

• Improve developer productivity by creating reusable solutions to reduce time and effort to onboard new services

• Drive technical excellence and reliability through design docs, code reviews, testing, and production support

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on roadmaps and mentoring; explore AI-assisted development tools and automation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years related experience, or Master’s degree with 4+ years related experience, or PhD with 1+ year related experience

• 4+ years of backend development with Go or Python, including production services/infrastructure tooling

• Kubernetes experience (deploying, configuring, or troubleshooting in production)

• Experience with distributed systems and internal developer platforms/shared infrastructure tooling

• Experience with at least one public cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) with company matching

• Paid parental leave

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• Basic life insurance

• Paid time away (paid holidays, floating holiday, wellness days, vacation/sick time programs)

• Potential restricted stock units and annual bonuses (policy dependent)

• Compensated on-call rotation (scheduled)