Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.
**Role Summary**:
Challenges in this role include: understanding the diverse Splunk product portfolio, risk-based prioritization, remediation guidance, secure design pattern consulting, incident response guidance, and bug bounty decisions.
**What you'll get to do**:
- Have the ability to develop or adapt custom tooling to solve new needs
- Ability to guide and provide feedback to coworkers
- Ability to be accountable for internal programs related to the work area
- Establish relationships with engineering teams to drive Splunk products to a mature security state
- Have experience with security advisories
**Must-have Qualifications**:
- Strong understanding of vulnerabilities, common attack vectors and how to resolve them
- Attacker mindset: ability to think creatively about relevant threats and attacks
- Familiarity with public cloud platforms (preferably AWS and GCP)
- Effective written and oral communication
**Nice-to-have Qualifications**:
We've taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. "Nice-to-have" means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don't worry if you can't check off every box. We're not hiring a list of bullet points-we're interested in the whole you.
- Experience with Splunk products
- Contributions to the security community such as research, public CVEs, bug-bounty recognitions, open-source projects, and blogs or publications
- Relevant development/scripting/automation experience in C++, Javascript, Python, Go
- Ability to drive efforts as a SME: thinking in whole systems, working within and between teams to have a positive security impact
**Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer**
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. 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.
