Splunk Senior Staff Software Engineer - Performance Optimization & Innovation (PerfOpt)

Meet The Team The Performance Optimization and Innovation (PerfOpt) team improves the Splunk customer experience through deep performance work, and sets Splunk's long-term performance standards through guidelines and design. We work where performance is won or lost: search and indexing hot paths, cache and bloomfilter efficiency, S3 transfer throughput, I/O workload management, and parallelism in the data retrieval path. It's a C++ core moving petabyte-scale data across a large distributed architecture, and the results land in what customers feel - search latency, ingest throughput, and infrastructure cost. We are also the organization's performance center of gravity: the benchmarking, design patterns, and engineering standards other teams adopt come from here.…