Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability, FedRAMP

Company: Splunk Inc.
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 4, 2025

Job Description:

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.Join us on the Splunk TechOps team, working on our vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone! You will configure and maintain our customer-facing SaaS product, Splunk Cloud. Come join a team that is striving for operational awesomeness and trying to automate the world. We have a large AWS presence, and you should have experience with AWS architecting, deployments, and networking. This is an incredible opportunity to use your existing cloud experience and drive the growth of the Splunk Cloud.Meet the Products and Technology TeamWant to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are? Our products and technology team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a self-service Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics, full stack observability and real-time visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at .Responsibilities:

• You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.
• You constantly consider "How can I automate this process?"
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents.
• Experience monitoring cloud environments using tools like Splunk, VictorOps and SignalFx.
• You care about good documentation and appreciate how it allows a distributed team to function.
• Ability to tackle complex problems, resolve operational issues, and interact with vendors to find solutions.
• Comfortable working with critical, customer-facing issues and able to prioritize quickly when escalations happen.Requirements:
  • Extensive experience as a Linux system administrator supporting enterprise computing platforms and systems.
  • Expertise in public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Knowledge and understanding of OpenTelemetry.
  • Deep understanding of logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting practices in large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proficiency with programming languages like Python along with shell scripting to automate tasks.
  • Experience supporting customer facing SaaS infrastructure or similar cloud related services.
  • Experience in administering or architecting distributed Splunk and Observability environments.
  • Experience in setting up SLOs & SLIs.Splunk is an Equal Opportunity EmployerAt Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. 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.Base Pay RangeSF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro AreaBase Pay Range: $174,800.00 - 240,350.00 per yearCalifornia (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and MassachusettsBase Pay Range: $157,320.00 - 216,315.00 per yearAll other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.Base Pay Range: $139,840.00 - 192,280.00 per yearSplunk 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 above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base 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, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at .
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