Senior Staff Software Developer - Edge Processor (Remote)

This role can be performed from any location within Canada.

Meet the Team

Splunk is the key to enterprise resilience for the 11,000+ organizations that use our Unified Security and Observability Platform. We regularly appear on a lot of “Best Places to Work” lists and we believe it’s because we encourage our Splunkers to bring their whole, authentic selves. 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. Because when you feel free to be you, it makes it a lot easier for us to be us.

Join us as we pursue our innovative vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, our customers, having fun and most meaningfully, to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Are you passionate about working on critical systems to create tangible customer impact? Would you like the opportunity to work at a growing company that is changing the way that information is used to support business decisions? If this resonates with you, we would love to speak with you.

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

• Leading the end-to-end delivery of complex projects that span the timeline of multiple quarters, including the complete software development cycle: Understand requirements, writing system design documents, develop, test, automate and deploy software
• Set technical strategy and vision for the team, including establishing the right process, providing coding and design guidelines to set a high engineering standard
• Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues
• Engage in design and code reviews of the product, and enhance your knowledge of customers’ experiences to prevent future problems
• Make code maintainable and the product diagnosable and serviceable
• Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of Software Development Industry Experience, with a significant portion in a lead or architect capacity.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, shipping, and supporting high-performance, high-throughput, and low-latency data processing components.
• Demonstrated experience of shipping and supporting both cloud-native services and on-premises software solutions, using object-oriented programming languages like GoLang, Java, C/C+, or others.
• Experience leading the design and delivery of complex projects with a scope of 6 months or more, involving collaboration with horizontal (cross-functional) teams. Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction, drive consensus across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to design, architect, and implement complex, large-scale distributed systems, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance. Deep understanding of distributed system concepts (e.g., consistency models, fault tolerance, consensus algorithms).

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable code, and the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, with expertise in using Linux-based tools and advanced diagnostic techniques.
• A strong advocate for operational excellence, driving best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident response across the team and advocating for robust production readiness.

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Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, vis