The business problem that this job is looking to solve is to lead the evolution of Splunk’s flagship search engine capabilities, ensuring the platform meets the next wave of customer scale, performance, and reliability needs at Cisco.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in building and scaling large-scale, high-performance systems.
- Deep understanding of search technologies, indexing systems, distributed storage, large-scale data platforms, and information-retrieval systems.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies and running cloud-based services.
- Proven experience leading backend or distributed systems engineering teams.
- 5+ years of experience building, managing, and leading engineering teams.
- Experience with internal workings of large-scale query engines such as Presto or AWS Athena.
- Passion for solving complex systems problems and delivering customer-impacting results.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of backend and distributed-systems engineers.
- Drive the architecture, scalability, and reliability of Splunk’s search backend to support massive data volumes and advanced AI-driven use cases.
- Partner with product and platform teams to define long-term strategy for search services and execution roadmaps.
- Own delivery of high-quality, performant backend features and services that power search across the Splunk ecosystem.
- Champion best practices in distributed systems, cloud-native design, reliability engineering, and performance optimization.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, operational rigor, and customer-centric innovation.
- Drive technical strategy, execution, and cross-team collaboration.
Other
- Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
