Junior Software Engineer (Python)

Join us as we pursue our vision to make the world a place where data provides clarity,

elevates discussion, and accelerates progress for everyone. We are a company filled with

people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for

our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most

importantly, to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can

become a part of our journey.

Role

Applications are the lifeblood of organizations. They support the processes that engage

customers, partners, and employees. Effective application management isn’t just a “nice to

have” — it’s critical to the success of your organization.

Our goal in the App Deployment Team is to remove the barriers between data and action,

and provide people with access to informative, predictive, relevant, and actionable data via

the Splunk platform. This team focuses on applications management, which is integral in

the adoption and successful use of Splunk’s platform.

We are looking for an extraordinary Junior Software Engineer to drive the technical

direction and implementation of the Splunk Cloud application management experiences.

You thrive in a dynamic environment and have a proven record of software delivery. This

role requires cross-team collaboration with our product management, user experience, and

documentation teams, as well as technical leaders from other engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Engagement in design, implementation and delivery of long-term impact software in
  
  

accordance with given requirements and existing system architecture

• Maintain existing technology stack and debug and fix issues
• Work closely with product management and architects and the team to build exciting
  
  

features, reusable components and products.

• Analyze and optimize back-end code, and pursue simplicity, efficiency, reliability and
  
  

performance.

• Use independent judgment to take existing code, understand its function and
  
  

change/improve as needed.

• Understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying
  
  

new systems to production.

• Lead code reviews of the product, and use your knowledge of customers’
  
  

experiences to dedicatedly prevent future problems.

• Follow SDLC process in Agile methodology.
  
  

Requirements

• Strong motivation to learn and improve technical skills
• Knowledge of Python, Go or another modern programming language (most of our
  
  

code base is written in Python).

• AWS or Azure experience.
• Experience in containerization will be a plus
• Understanding of Restful APIs and influencing API design choices.
• Developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit tests, functional tests,
  
  

and integration tests.

• Problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills, both verbal and written.
  
  

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, from engineering and QA to
  
  

product management and customer support.

• Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and
  
  

leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation.

• A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment.
• An opportunity to see the positive impact of your work on real customers.
  
  

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.