Senior Software Engineer (Backend - Data Platform)
Splunk
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote
Posted on May 12, 2025
Role Summary
Splunk AppDynamics, a leader in observability solutions for both cloud and on-premises environments, empowers customers with end-to-end visibility across their entire application ecosystems, cloud, on-premises, or hybrid. Our team is dedicated to developing, maintaining, and supporting SaaS and on-premises offerings within the observability product suite.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build upon our application and data platform as we continue to innovate on application observability. We move fast and iterate quickly. We are passionate about solving customers’ problems. We have ambitious goals to build best-of-its-kind products. You will help the team win in a fast-growing market. If you are passionate about innovation and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you.
Meet the Team (Optional)
Data platform is the heart of the AppDynamics architecture. We process more than 100 billion data packets per day, more than 5 peta byte of data flows through our platform. We are in 8 regions having 40 clusters of 7000 nodes. We ingest, process and store all the data that power the dashboards that our customers rely on for observing their infrastructure and their applications.
What you'll get to do
- Design and build highly scalable solutions
- Work with a team of exceptionally capable and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering to product management and customer support
- Work in an open environment, work together to get things done and adapt to the team's changing needs
- Leverage technologies including Kafka, ElasticSearch, Docker, and Kubernetes across different cloud environments like AWS and Azure
Must-have Qualifications
- 7+ years of full-stack developer experience in designing and developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and services.
- Strong proficiency in Java programming language.
- Strong proficiency in data structures, algorithms, threads, concurrent programming
- Extensive knowledge of SQL and at least one relational database engine: MySQL. Hands on experience in RDS or NoSQL (Dynamo, MongoDB) is a big plus
- Understanding of microservices design with expertise in Dockers and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to multi-task and adapt quickly to changing requirements, scope, and priorities.
- Optimize data pipelines, storage systems, and query engines for performance and efficiency.
- Work closely with product teams, data engineers, software developers, and product managers to deliver on business goals.
- Mentor team members in architecture principles, coding best practices, and system design.
- Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution.
- Support CI/CD processes and automate testing for data systems
- Stay abreast of emerging trends in big data, machine learning, and distributed systems to recommend innovative solutions.
Nice-to-have Qualifications
We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.
- Added advantage of having an experience in working on Cloud Observability Space.
- experience of other languages like python, etc
- experience of front-end technologies
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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.
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