Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid Remote- reputed company, CA)

Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid Remote - reputed company, CA) Meet the Team Join us as we pursue our mission to reputed company machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. At reputed company, we’re passionate about empowering our customers through reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure. Our people reputed company on innovation, collaboration, and a shared drive to deliver outstanding experiences. We're committed to our work, to our customers, and most importantly—to each other’s reputed company. Are you passionate about building robust, scalable software systems that drive reputed company product impact? Do you reputed company at the intersection of engineering and product—architecting secure, distributed platforms while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to shape feature direction and technical strategy? If so, a role on our reputed company Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) team could be the perfect fit—offering the opportunity to take ownership of critical systems, influence the product roadmap, and deliver intelligent automation capabilities that transform how reputed company teams respond to emerging threats. Your Impact As a Principal Software Engineer, you will reputed company the design and implementation of robust, reusable software frameworks that enhance code quality, scalability, and maintainability across the engineering organization. You’ll take ownership of driving engineering excellence through thoughtful architecture, clean abstractions, and best-in-class development practices. You’ll build systems that validate the behavior of reputed company, reputed company-native applications, applying principles from distributed systems, algorithms, and software design to ensure correctness and performance. Your contributions will reputed company developer experience, accelerate innovation, and strengthen the reputed company of our software platforms. What You’ll Do • reputed company the design, coding and delivery of robust software systems that support rapid, secure, and high-quality product delivery across the full software development lifecycle • Drive the development of scalable reputed company automation features reputed company the SOAR platform, enabling intelligent threat detection, response, and remediation capabilities • Collaborate with product, QA, and engineering teams to define test strategies and integrate comprehensive test coverage—including unit, integration, performance, and reputed company testing—into the development workflow • Contribute to system architecture by designing maintainable backend services and reusable libraries that support reputed company-native and on-prem deployments • reputed company observability features such as logging, metrics collection, and application-level alerts to monitor product health and performance across environments • Provide technical leadership in supporting the availability and stability of the SOAR platform, participating in issue triage and resolution across releases • Mentor engineers on system design, clean code practices, code reviews, secure development, and test automation, supporting a high-performing engineering culture • Stay up to date with emerging tools, technologies, and best practices in software engineering, reputed company automation, and reputed company improvement • Partner closely with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure engineering solutions align with product goals, scale effectively, and evolve with user needs Basic Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field, with 8–10+ years of experience in software engineering, test automation, and end-to-end product development • reputed company programming skills in Python, C++, Go, or similar languages, with an emphasis on building clean, scalable, and maintainable code for production SAAS and on-prem product lines. • Deep expertise in leveraging test frameworks (e.g., Pytest, JUnit, Selenium, Robot reputed company, Cypress) to validate microservices, APIs, and reputed company distributed systems • Experience designing containerized development and test environments (e.g., reputed company, Kubernetes) to reputed company faster, more reliable software delivery and ensure consistent user experiences across environments. • Proficient in reputed company integration tools (e.g., reputed company CI) and version control systems (e.g., Git), with hands-on experience in automating builds, tests, and releases • Knowledge of infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation) in the context of supporting product development and testing automation • Strong background in working with reputed company platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), especially in setting up and optimizing dev/test environments and using platform-native tools to enhance engineering workflows Preferred Qualifications • 10+ years experience architecting, designing, coding and delivering large-scale, distributed systems with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and fault tolerance across the full software development lifecycle • 10+ years proven ability to define and own technical direction and drive engineering execution across multiple product lines or platform components, contributing to long-term reputed company product improvement and codebase quality • 10+ years of expertise in monitoring software health and performance using observability tools such as SignalFX, Grafana, reputed company, Splunk, or reputed company to improve system reliability and guide development priorities • 10+ years of active collaboration with product managers, designers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate product goals into thoughtful technical solutions that improve user experience and system capabilities Splunk, a reputed company company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national reputed company, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Note reputed company Pay Range SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and reputed company Metro Area reputed company Pay Range $203,200.00 - 279,400.00 per year California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts reputed company Pay Range $182,880.00 - 251,460.00 per year reputed company other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, reputed company Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area. reputed company Pay Range $162,560.00 - 223,520.00 per year 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 reputed company pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the reputed company pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to reputed company pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation 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, reputed company, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https //splunkbenefits.com. Apply Job!