Staff Software Engineer, MWS Team

Join Splunk and help shape the future of machine data!   
At Splunk, we’re driven by a bold vision: to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We’re a team of passionate builders who care deeply about our customers, our technology, and each other’s success. We work hard, move fast, and believe that great outcomes come from collaboration, trust, and curiosity.  If you’re excited by the idea of working on mission-critical systems that deliver real customer im‐ pact - and want to be part of a growing company redefining how organizations use data to make decisions - we’d love to talk with you about the team.  Our team builds and operates large-scale services that orchestrate updates and changes across customer environments in Splunk Cloud. We work at a significant scale across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes, supporting both traditional and containerized workloads.  This is an opportunity to apply deep cloud and distributed systems expertise while driving the next generation of automation that powers Splunk Cloud. Our work directly influences reliability, scalability, and customer trust, and we are continuously evolving how we build, deploy, and operate systems at scale. 
 
What you’ll do  

• Own features end-to-end across the complete software development lifecycle including AI, spanning requirements gathering, technical design, implementation, testing, automation, deployment, and ongoing operational ownership in production.  

• Translate customer and business needs into clear technical solutions, making thoughtful trade-offs that balance speed, quality, and reliability.  

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, distributed systems that handle large volumes of data.  

• Identify and resolve pre-production bottlenecks and production issues, improving system resilience and performance.  
  Participate in design and code reviews, contributing to shared engineering standards and long-term system health.  

• Partner closely with product managers, SREs, and cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful customer outcomes.  

• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, diagnosing and resolving production issues to ensure reliability and customer trust.  

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement. 

What will help you succeed  

• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and disciplines.  

• A strong ownership mindset, with a proactive approach to identifying problems and driving solutions.  

• Drive and resilience when working through complex, ambiguous, or high impact 
  challenges.  

• Goal orientation, with the ability to turn high-level objectives into measurable outcomes.  

• Openness to change and experimentation, including curiosity and passion around AI-assisted development, automation, and operation