Database Reliability Engineer

DescriptionJoin us as we pursue our ground-breaking 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 are committed to our work customers having fun and most significantly to each other s success The provides full-fidelity monitoring and troubleshooting across infrastructure applications and user interfaces in real-time and at any scale to help our customers keep their services reliable innovate faster and deliver great customer experiences Infrastructure Software Engineers at Splunk are cloud-native systems engineers who use infrastructure-as-code microservices automation and efficient design to build operate and scale our products RoleYou will help us run one of the largest and most sophisticated cloud-scale big data and microservices platforms in the world You will be responsible for enabling developers to operate highly available scalable and cost-efficient applications with low operational burden by managing and improving the reliability and resiliency of SRE-managed services and infrastructure You thrive on automation infrastructure-as-code reliability engineering and getting rid of tedious manual tasks You will Design new services tools and monitoring to be implemented by the entire team Analyze the tradeoffs of the proposed design and make recommendations based on these tradeoffs Mentor new engineers to achieve more than they thought possible You enjoy making other teams successful and are fulfilled through the success of others Work on database reliability projects including HA Business Continuity Planning disaster recovery backup restore RTO RPO Database uptime and performance Capacity management planning SLIs SLOs error budgets and monitoring dashboards Responsible for deployment and operations of large-scale distributed data stores and streaming services Establishing design patterns for monitoring and benchmarking Establishing and documenting production run books and guidelines for developers Tooling toil reduction runbooks automation to manage production environments Incident management and improving MTTD MTTR for services Cloud cost optimization QualificationsMandatory 3 years of experience with deployment operations and performance management of large-scale Cassandra clusters along with Zookeeper 2 years of experience in managing large-scale cloud-native microservices platforms Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting using Python and or bash scripting Excellent problem-solving troubleshooting and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems Preferred Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka and or Apache Cassandra Administrator Associate certifications are preferred AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred Experience with automating deployment operations and performance management of one or more of the following large-scale clusters such as Cassandra Kafka Elastic Open Search MongoDB ZooKeeper Redis etc Strong hands-on experience deploying managing and monitoring large-scale Kubernetes clusters in the public cloud specifically AWS or GCP Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform CloudFormation Google Deployment Manager Pulumi Packer ARM etc Proven skills to effectively work across teams and functions to influence the design operations and deployment of highly available software Bachelors Masters in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience We value diversity equity and inclusion at Splunk and are an equal employment opportunity employer 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 Thank you for your interest in Splunk