Sr. Engineering Manager- Product Performance- Remote

Job Description

A little about us. Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. We’re proud to say that we’re the key to enterprise resilience for more than 11,000 enterprise organizations that use our Unified Security and Observability Platform to keep their systems secure and reliable. We’re also especially proud of our award-winning culture and our regular appearance on those “Best Places to Work” lists.

Role:

Are you passionate about learning new technologies and understanding how they work? Are you interested in an opportunity to work with an upbeat team to help drive its products to a new level? With our purpose to build a safer and more resilient digital world, we are looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager, to help us focus on the scalability and performance of our products and build significant benchmarks that address customer use cases.

At Splunk, we see tremendous demand in dealing with heterogeneous data in utmost volume, i.e. petabytes per day, each and every release of our software is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers. As a Sr. Engineering Manager, Product Performance, you'll have a key role in our products' success. You will collaborate with peers, field teams, customers to understand and encapsulate the use cases into industry standard benchmarks. You will work with product management and reach out directly to our customers to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. You will also help drive the direction of product to meet the ever increasing demand of data in security and IT observability market

Responsibilities:

• You will lead a team of extraordinary, highly motivated software engineers who are responsible to make Splunk products performant, scalable and reliable. You will be responsible for providing performance insights and identify optimization opportunities to product stakeholders, triage production performance bottlenecks, and identify and fix performance issues while working with all engineering teams.
• Work with various product teams design and develop state-of-art solutions to existing performance problems, and performance analysis tools to allow dev teams to gain further insight into production behavior. Our goal is to enable self serviceable PSR testing and analysis, so we can scale the business in leaps and bounds
• You will help cultivate the engineering culture of owning performance, so every engineer knows that their code is accurately tested in an autonomous fashion as they deploy to each environment.
• In order to successfully lead this team, you will need exceptional leadership skills, familiarity with performance tools, proficiency with agile development methodologies, and the ability to operate within short release cycles.
• Own end-to-end performance coverage, identify bottlenecks and work with the Engineering teams to address issues.
• Encourage a data-driven culture to improve the performance, efficiency and scalability of services and systems to help scale the company.
• Daily management of objectives, priorities, trade offs, risk as well as performance management of all staff reporting to you.
• Provide technical leadership, career development, and mentoring to team members.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of performance engineering experience with a distinguished track record of driving performance across a large team
• 7+ years of management experience with demonstrated ability to attract, develop and retain talent.
• Strong technical skills in Big Data Platforms and distributed computing systems, microservice, and cloud-native performance. Domain knowledge in cloud computing.
• Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modeling of system behavior under load
• Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools, pstack, qmlprofiler
• Passionate to optimize the performance bottlenecks and improve the product
• Experience in taking on problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated large-scale deployments
• Expert in scripting languages (Python) and compiled languages (C/C++)
• Ability to empower people, instill accountability and achieve results.
• Agile, proactive, comfortable working with ambiguous specifications and can prioritize on the fly.
• Experience with enterprise software capacity planning is a big plus

Education:

• Masters/Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Equivalent Experience

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Note: 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 below, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and benefits, 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, an ESPP and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering here.

Base Pay Range

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area

Base Pay Range: $192,000.00 - 264,000.00 per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay Range: $172,000.00 - 236,500.00 per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay Range: $156,000.00 - 214,500.00 per year