Senior Engineering Manager
Splunk
A Little About Us
What We’re Looking For
What You Provide
- Foster growth. EMs will meet with team members on a regular basis, help plan and support career development, and recruit top-tier developers.
- Leadership. EMs have technical leadership and management experience in software engineering.
- Partnership. EMs have experience partnering with multi-functional team members to develop and maintain a well-defined roadmap.
- Passion. EMs are passionate about motivating the team, fostering collaboration, and embodying excitement about projects.
- Drive for automation. EMs constantly consider, "How can I automate this manual process?" and inspire teams to embrace this philosophy.
- Operational excellence. EMs strive for collecting robust metrics, data, and monitoring information from our services. If an issue arises, the team is alerted before our customers notice.
- Keeping calm and carrying on. EMs mentor teams on appropriately handling a product outage, identifying performance bottlenecks, and determining the root cause of incidents.
- Organized and communicative. EMs track work in progress, facilitate team development process rituals, and lead by example.
- Open and inclusive. EMs foster a culture of inclusivity, diversity, learning, psychological safety, mentorship, and collaboration across all engineering skill levels.
- Technical experience. You are knowledgeable about standards related to security, performance, and disaster recovery. You also have an understanding of code development, branching strategies, and deployment pipelines.
- Golang/Kubernetes experience. Experience with Golang/Kubernetes is a plus as most tools are written in this language, but not required.
What We Provide
- Opportunities to grow as a leader. We are always expanding into new areas, and exploring new technologies.
- A fantastic team. We have exceptionally skilled and dedicated peers and individual contributors.
- A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. The teams work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs for the team.
- Balance. People are not expected to work 12 hour days. Balance helps cultivate a positive environment.
- Fun. We like to do team building events every couple months in our group. We are committed to having every employee be respectful and a part of this team, and have fun while doing it!
Requirements
- 10+ years actively developing and/or managing cloud-native technologies.
- 5+ years of management experience and 12 years of professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrable foundation in microservices, software design for cloud, and leading software product development engineers and architects.
- Experience leading globally-distributed teams across different timezones.
Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.