Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability, FedRAMP
Splunk
Meet the Products and Technology Team
Responsibilities:
- You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.
- You constantly consider "How can I automate this process?"
- Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
- Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents.
- Experience monitoring cloud environments using tools like Splunk, VictorOps and SignalFx
- You care about good documentation and appreciate how it allows a distributed team to function.
- Ability to tackle complex problems, resolve operational issues, and interact with vendors to find solutions.
- Comfortable working with critical, customer-facing issues and able to prioritize quickly when escalations happen.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience as a Linux system administrator supporting enterprise computing platforms and systems.
- Expertise in public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Knowledge and understanding of OpenTelemetry.
- Deep understanding of logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting practices in large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficiency with programming languages like Python along with shell scripting to automate tasks
- Experience supporting customer facing SaaS infrastructure or similar cloud related services.
- Experience in administering or architecting distributed Splunk and Observability environments.
- Experience in setting up SLOs & SLIs.
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Note:
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $174,800.00 - 240,350.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $157,320.00 - 216,315.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $139,840.00 - 192,280.00 per year
Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.
Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.