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.

Meet the team

Our team is a dynamic technology group with a mission to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. If you possess a passion for outstanding technology leadership and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you. We are building state-of-the-art capabilities, data processing and search systems, support tools, security frameworks and automation instrumentation that will greatly impact how our customers successfully use data to improve their businesses performance, scalability, profitability, and market strategies.

Your impact

This Senior Manager for Engineering will lead critical services within our Platform umbrella. Success will be measured by your ability to build and lead your team as part of our overall engineering strategy. You will seamlessly integrate within our innovative culture and contribute to our excellent record for delivering market leading solutions. You are a seasoned leader with a demonstrated history building and leading both established and emerging engineering talent, while fostering an environment of inclusion, creativity, and innovation.

We are looking for a proven, seasoned engineering leader to lead key elements of our customer data onboarding systems. You will lead an elite team of engineers who will be working on systems that will power the next generation of Splunk and enable ever deeper customer insights.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver world-class software

• Hire and develop an engineering team, focused on making our industry leading technology even more valuable to our customers.

• Diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software.

• Champion an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor.

• Be an advocate of scalable and extensible, recoverable, manageable architecture for Core products and services.

Minimum qualifications

• Experience developing new products and infrastructure, with a consistent track record of delivering scalable, high performance, and high-quality software systems

• Experience hiring and cultivating teams.

• Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices and processes.

• Experience working within geographically distributed organizations.

• Broad understanding of various cloud development technologies and industry trends for enterprise-scale, distributed systems.

• Strong technical acumen, creativity, interpersonal skills, and emotional intelligence.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams working on large scale data pipelines, CI/CD infrastructure and processing systems

• A mix of start-up and bigger company experience is a plus.