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About the Role

The Platform Security team builds and operates foundational security capabilities that protect Splunk services, infrastructure, and customer data at enterprise scale. We are advancing automation-first and agentic development practices to build secure, well-tested, and developer-friendly platforms. Our work directly influences reliability, scalability, developer productivity, compliance, and customer trust across Splunk.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and operate secure, scalable platform services supporting certificate management, secrets management, service identity, encryption, and zero-trust capabilities.
Apply software engineering and security best practices to enhance the reliability, usability, and operational efficiency of Platform Security products and services.
Work independently on well-defined initiatives, using guidance from leaders to determine implementation approaches.
Lead small-to-medium features from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
Develop clean, maintainable code and comprehensive unit and integration tests.
Build automation for certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, revocation, secret delivery, and policy enforcement across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
Contribute to secure multi-cloud capabilities across AWS, GCP, and Azure, ensuring consistent security patterns.
Apply secure coding practices, participate in threat modeling, and identify security risks.
Use AI-assisted and agentic development practices to improve engineering velocity while maintaining testing and security guardrails.
Perform code reviews and provide actionable feedback to improve code quality, security, reliability, and maintainability.
Troubleshoot complex development and production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to incident reviews, root-cause analyses, and remediation plans.
Partner with engineering, infrastructure, compliance, and security teams to deliver capabilities supporting requirements such as FedRAMP, mTLS, cryptographic agility, and certificate governance.
Build productive relationships with peer stakeholders and clearly communicate technical decisions, project progress, risks, and dependencies.
Monitor service health, reliability, adoption, and operational metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
Stay current with developments in cloud security, PKI, secrets management, cryptography, post-quantum readiness, and secure software development practices.
Serve as a technical resource for less-experienced engineers, share knowledge across teams, and mentor peers or interns.

Requirements

Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of professional software development experience building and operating secure, scalable, production-grade systems.
Proficiency in C++ or Go programming languages is required.
Experience in Python is considered an advantage.

Skills

C++
Go
Python
Public key infrastructure
Certificate lifecycle management
Certificate authorities
TLS
Mutual TLS
Cloud security (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Multi-cloud environments
Kubernetes
Applied cryptography
Key management
Encryption
Digital signatures
Cryptographic agility
Security and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP)
Distributed systems
Platform services
REST APIs
Automation
Communication skills
Collaboration skills

Location

U.S.
Canada

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5 years of related experience (with Bachelors)
3 years of related experience (with Masters)
0 years of professional software development experience (with PhD)

Education Level

Bachelors Degree
Masters Degree
PhD

Salary/Compensations

$128,600.00 - $184,900.00 (U.S. and/or Canada)
$155,000.00 - $256,000.00 (New York City Metro Area)
$138,100.00 - $227,900.00 (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short-term disability coverage
Long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Restricted stock units
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
Flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
Annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
Performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)

About the Company

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer, more resilient digital world with an end-to-end, full-stack platform designed for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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.
Our solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.