Software Engineer

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. The Release Engineering team builds the systems that keep Splunk releases moving with confidence. We own the automation and operational workflows behind branch cuts, active branch maintenance, backports, build publication, release notes, release metadata, and release visibility for Splunk releases. Our mission is to turn release and certification work into reliable CI: builds that can be produced and certified regularly, release status that is visible in real time, and alerts that bring humans in only when judgment is needed. The team works to reduce manual coordination and make the release lifecycle easier for every engineering team that depends on it. This is a team for engineers who like both systems and impact. Some days you may be improving a service that provides release metadata to internal consumers. Other days you may automate an existing manual workflow or improve dashboards that help leadership and release partners understand where a release stands. We value operational ownership: our on-call rotation plans weekly builds, triages release certification results, handles incidents when builds or publish flows are blocked, and helps partner teams in ensuring releases go smoothly. You’ll join a small, high-leverage team that sits at the center of Splunk’s release machinery. We care about replacing tribal knowledge with durable automation, turning messy cross-system signals into clear answers, and making every release a little less tedious. Your Impact We are seeking a software engineer to help build and operate the automation that powers Splunk’s release lifecycle across Splunk release portfolio. You will partner with Engineering, Release Management, TPMs, TechOps, and partner teams to simplify branch cuts, builds, backports, release certification, publish workflows, release notes, and release visibility. You will turn complex release processes into reliable CI-driven systems, dashboards, APIs, and alerts that make release status clear and actionable. Your work will help Splunk ship faster and more predictably while reducing manual coordination, and ensuring the right code reaches the customers as fast as possible.