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　　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? We are looking for a seasoned, creative Performance Engineer to help us focus on the scalability and performance of our products and build meaningful benchmarks that address customer experience.

　　At Splunk, each release of our software is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers. As a Senior Performance Engineer, you'll have a direct impact on our products' success. You will collaborate with peers, field teams, and customers to understand and encapsulate the user scenarios into industry standard benchmarks. You will work with product management and interface directly with our customers to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. You will also drive projects to integrate benchmarking into our continuous integration and test automation frameworks.

　　Responsibilities:

　　Define, design and implement performance / scalability / reliability (PSR) benchmarks on Splunk Enterprise and Cloud products

　　Heavily contribute in the design and implementation of self-service tools for Splunk developers to find performance bottlenecks by themselves

　　Efficiently working with various profiling tools to identify performance and concurrency bottleneck, propose and implement optimizations to improve the Splunk products

　　Implement and improve sizing and capacity calculators for premium Splunk applications on the cloud

　　Demonstrated ability in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking

　　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: flamegraphs, pprof, pstack, qmlprofiler, perf, nmon

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　　Requirements:

　　Passionate about finding software performance bottlenecks and optimize product code

　　Fluent in any of Python (C++ or Go would be a huge plus)

　　Knows the principles of distributed computing systemsComfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, Artifactory in terms of both tools and systems administration

　　BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

　　minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3

　　mentoring/leading teams

　　Experience in SaaS, Microservice, Cloud Native software companies and projects

　　Nice to have:

　　Experience in solving problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated large-scale deployments

　　Experience with enterprise software capacity planning

　　Experience with data science and ML

　　Experience with GPU

　　Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer: At 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.

　　Note:

　　Base Pay Range

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　　Base Pay: PLN 220,800.00 - 303,600.00 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 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 comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, wellbeing expense reimbursement, and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.