Senior Software Engineer, License Manager

The License Manager team builds and evolves core licensing and entitlement capabilities that power Splunk products. The team focuses on backend and systems development with strong partnerships across product management, support, and engineering, working on foundational platform capabilities that impact customer trust, product reliability, and business operations.

• Strong, hands-on Go experience building scalable, reliable, high-throughput production services.
• Strong, hands-on C++ experience in production systems, including performance-sensitive code, debugging, and design trade-offs.
• Ability to work effectively across Go services and existing C++ components, including integration and incremental modernization work.
• Experience leading technical design for distributed systems, APIs, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Deep ability to diagnose and resolve complex performance, reliability, and production issues.
• Strong automated-testing, observability, and production-support practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience evolving licensing, entitlement, metering, or commercial-platform services.
• Experience designing migration strategies for legacy systems while maintaining production stability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions across teams.
• Python experience for test tooling and automation.
• Kubernetes and cloud-native service operations.
• Incident leadership and service-reliability engineering experience.

• Build, test, debug, and maintain core License Manager capabilities using Go and C++.
• Deliver well-scoped features, fixes, and enhancements from design through implementation and completion.
• Write clean, maintainable, and secure code with strong unit and integration test coverage.
• Investigate product and production issues to identify root causes and contribute to durable fixes.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, product management, support, and engineering partners to improve system behavior and deliver customer value.
• Grow ownership over broader technical areas over time.