Junior Cloud Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Participate in the software development cycle with guidance from more experienced engineers: understand requirements, contribute to technical design, implement features, write tests, fix defects and support deployment readiness
• ▹Work on small-to-medium features or clearly scoped parts of larger initiatives
• ▹Develop and maintain service components, APIs, data collection jobs, validation checks, automation and internal tools that collect, normalize and expose engineering quality signals
• ▹Contribute to internal applications and lightweight engineering interfaces that help teams inspect quality data, understand missing signals and identify practical next steps
• ▹Apply user-centered thinking with a focus on simplification, usability, reliability, secure coding practices and privacy-aware handling of engineering data
• ▹Write clean, maintainable code and unit tests with guidance, and execute relevant tests for your changes
• ▹Participate in design and code reviews, address review feedback and learn to give constructive review comments
• ▹Create and update technical documentation, and contribute to user-facing or operational documentation
• ▹Debug and troubleshoot issues in development, test, pre-production and production environments with support from the team
• ▹Monitor and triage incident reports with guidance, participate in postmortems and over time support on-call activities as appropriate
• ▹Estimate assignments, communicate status clearly, raise blockers early and collaborate on paths forward

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree with 2 years of related experience, Master's degree with 0 years, or equivalent practical experience
• ▹Basic knowledge of software engineering theories, principles and concepts, with exposure to current technologies through coursework, internship, professional work, open-source work or personal projects
• ▹Practical coding experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python or Go
• ▹Good fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, debugging and writing readable, maintainable code
• ▹Basic understanding of backend or service development concepts such as APIs, HTTP, databases, data formats and automated testing
• ▹Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices, including requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, acceptance testing and iterative delivery
• ▹Ability to write functional code and unit tests with guidance
• ▹Ability to read logs, investigate defects, use development tools and troubleshoot straightforward issues with support
• ▹Good communication and collaboration skills, including communicating status, blockers and delays
• ▹Willingness to learn secure coding practices, reliability practices and production support expectations

Nice to have

• ▹Familiarity with Python or Go
• ▹Familiarity with backend frameworks, internal tools, data pipelines or developer-facing systems
• ▹Basic knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases
• ▹Exposure to CI/CD systems, source control systems, test automation frameworks, containers or cloud-based development environments
• ▹Interest in engineering quality topics such as test coverage, contract testing, linting, pipeline reliability, release readiness or software delivery metrics
• ▹Exposure to secure coding principles, privacy-aware development, reliability testing, incident triage or production support practices

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹A team of highly capable and dedicated peers across engineering and platform organizations
• ▹The opportunity to work on meaningful internal systems that improve engineering quality and software delivery at Splunk
• ▹A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment
• ▹Growth: learn from experienced engineers, build practical software engineering skills and gradually take on more ownership
• ▹Balance: trust to be responsible with your time and commitments

About the company

Splunk (part of Cisco) aims to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Cisco has been innovating for 40 years to connect and protect data and infrastructure.