Senior Software Engineer; Backend

Meet the Team

The Splunk Enterprise Security team develops a data-driven SIEM designed to streamline security monitoring, threat detection, and compliance workflows. Our platform helps enterprise customers monitor, detect, and protect against growing cyber threats across cloud and on-prem environments. Engineers partner closely with Product Management, Architects, UX, multi-functional teams, and customers to shape the roadmap and deliver significant platform capabilities. Working directly with customers is a core value, and our lean process empowers engineers to address sophisticated problems with measurable customer impact.

• Lead technical strategy and execution for multiple teams and backend/platform product areas across cloud and on-prem deployments, ensuring scalable, performant, reliable, secure, and maintainable systems.
• Own the technical roadmap and architectural integrity of backend services and data-processing workflows, bridging the gap between requirements and implementation using Agile guidelines. Raise engineering excellence through documentation, code review, secure coding, testing, observability, architecture standards, and CI/CD practices.
• Partner with Product Management, UX, Architects, multi-functional teams, and customers to resolve complex production issues, support customer concerns, and deliver solutions that improve security monitoring, threat detection, compliance, and incident investigations.
• Mentor engineers, lead design sessions and architecture reviews, and build deep knowledge of product architecture, deployment models, and real-world operating environments to advance platform evolution and customer value.

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience, Master's degree with 4+ years.
• 4+ years of experience with developing software for distributed systems and databases and query optimization.
• 3+ years' experience with cloud technologies such AWS, Azure, GCP
• 4+ years of experience with Python, Go/Golang AND SQL
• 2+ years of experience with AI tools (such as Claude/ Codex) to drive development and testing efficiency.

• 4+ years of experience writing code that has been released into production
• Proven track record of driving technology innovation by translating industry trends into scalable features.
• Strong passion for designing highly reliable, maintainable, and distributed backend systems.
• 3+ years of experience working on performance bench marking using tools like WPT
• 3+ years of experience working on search technologies, data processing, or query execution.
• Experience or knowledge of Splunk Query Language (SPL)
• Experience with C++, Typescript, Cypress
• Strong communication skills with a demonstrated ability to mentor engineering teams and lead cross-functional platform initiatives.
• Experience architecting and maintaining high-traffic, distributed systems.
• A proactive mindset toward identifying, documenting, and resolving technical debt to ensure long-term system health.

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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