Senior Engineering Manager

Company: Splunk
Location: San Jose
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

We are looking for a shown engineering leader to help manage and develop a team of passionate engineers working on Splunk's core search infrastructure. This team is responsible for driving the performance, scale, and reliability of the search experience maximised by Splunk's core products. You thrive in a dynamic environment and have a track record of technical expertise and management responsibility. The primary goal of this job is to enable every team member to do the best work of their lives. Roles And Responsibilities:

• You will nurture an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor.
• You will diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software.
• You will work with your manager, architect, product manager, and peers to ensure alignment of your team's work in delivering search improvements to customers.
• You will participate in an on-call rotation supporting the engineers that are on-call for customer issues.
• You will work with technical architects and team members to craft thoughtful approaches to evolving the search platform.
• You will meet 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.
• You will plan and support career development.
• You will recruit and retain premier developers. Requirements:
  • You have experience developing and delivering scalable systems software solutions.
  • You have proven people management and leadership skills, and a proven track record of mentoring and coaching team members to be successful.
  • You are passionate about building and encouraging good engineering practices and processes, like version control, test-driven development, continuous integration, and build/test/release automation.
  • You have a good foundation in backend systems, storage, filesystem, distributed systems and information retrieval.
  • Preferably you have experience in cloud native technologies and running cloud-based services.
  • Preferably you have experience in C++ development. What We Offer You:
    • 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 exceptionally talented and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering and QA to product management and customer support.
    • A stable, collaborative and encouraging 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 outstanding environment.
    • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Splunk turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges.
      
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