Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - Security Platform Services
Splunk
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Norway · Remote
Posted on Apr 23, 2025
Join us as we pursue our innovative vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to 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, our customers, having fun, and most meaningfully, to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
Are you passionate about working on critical systems to create tangible customer impact? Would you like the opportunity to work at a growing company that is changing the way that information is used to support business decisions? If this resonates with you, we would love to speak with you.
Our Data Processing team is a dynamic technology group with a mission to be the primary data processing path for any type of data transformation and routing activity in near real-time. If you possess a passion for extraordinary technology leadership and embrace the challenge of working at the frontier of what is possible in the industry today, then this position is for you. We are building state-of-the art capabilities, real-time messaging and streaming systems, support tools, and automation instrumentation that will greatly impact how our customers successfully use data to improve their businesses performance, scalability, profitability, and market strategies.
Role
- Lead and participate in the complete software development cycle: Understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate, and deploy software.
- Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues.
- Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and enhance your knowledge of customers' experiences to prevent future problems.
- Make code maintainable and the product diagnosable and serviceable.
- Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues.
- Utilize WDIO test automation for effective and efficient testing.
- Conduct performance and scale reliability testing to ensure the robustness of our systems.
- Develop and execute unit tests to verify individual components' functionality.
- Write comprehensive test cases and maintain a library of test cases for various scenarios.
- Continuously identify test gaps and fortify test cases and test plans to ensure comprehensive coverage.
- Diagnose escalations and issues that arise in the production environment and work on solutions.
Requirements
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering: data structures and algorithms
- 8+ years of work experience in Software Development Engineer in Test with automation testing experience
- Coding proficiency in one or more of the following languages with the ability to quickly learn new languages: Python, Java, Go, C++
- Experience in working on distributed systems like databases, distributed file systems, distributed concurrency control
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills including the use of associated tools
- Experience with developing CI/CD systems with Gitlab, test automation frameworks,
- Ability to document your work for the benefit of the team
- Knowledge of REST, grpc or similar communication paradigms
- Knowledge of public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure
- Operational excellence: You think beyond feature delivery into how your code is serving customers in production
- Familiarity with Kafka and data streams for data processing and testing purposes.
- Expertise in software quality engineering principles and practices, including test planning, test case design, and quality assurance methodologies.
- Proven ability to diagnose escalations and production issues and work on effective solutions.
- Strong analytical skills to identify and address test gaps and improve test coverage.
What we offer
- A team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support.
- A stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, work together to get things done, and adapt to the changing needs of the team. We keep it real by being open and honest.
- Balance. We want you to be successful outside of work too. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and commitment, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.
- Fun. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful and a part of the family, and have a smile on their face while doing it.
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.
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