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Splunk is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Data Federation engineering team and have a large impact on a team responsible for building Federated Search capabilities. We're working on the cutting edge of data analysis and correlation, letting our customers have a single pane of glass for their data from sensors to web servers, across multiple deployments.

We give our engineers an environment in which they can contribute from day one while also providing opportunities for learning and growth. You'll learn how our entire stack works, from data ingestion and storage to searching, reporting and building dashboards, all in distributed environments. The work you’ll do will directly impact the experience of our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Write backend code for Splunk search infrastructure.
• Build robust, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a multi-threaded/multi-process environment.
• Analyze and improve scalability of retrieval, routing and collection of data across multiple deployments.
• Analyze and improve the scalability of data collection, routing, storage and retrieval.
• Define and perform various search language layer optimizations/transformations.

Requirements:

• 5 years of related experience with a technical Bachelor's degree; or equivalent practical experience
• Good knowledge of developing and debugging any object oriented language like C++
• You have knowledge and experience with AWS services, like EC2, S3 etc.
• You have a good foundation in backend systems, storage, filesystem, memory, multi-threading is a plus.
• You have familiarity with any query language like SQL, SPL etc.
• You have a proven foundation in data structures, algorithms, software design.
• You have knowledge of modern distributed system design and implementation.

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!