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We are a company filled with passionate people who seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we are committed to our work, our customers, having fun, and most meaningfully, to each other's success.\nAre you excited to grow your engineering skills while helping improve software quality at scale? Would you like to contribute to systems, standards, and internal tools that help engineering teams make better decisions about testing, reliability, and release readiness? If this resonates with you, we would love to speak with you.\nOur Quality Interfaces team is part of the Control Loop organization and focuses on the software development lifecycle across Splunk. The team builds the standards, quality signals, data contracts, and integration surfaces that help Splunk engineering teams understand their quality posture and act on it. Our customers are internal engineering teams, repository owners, engineering managers, platform teams, and release stakeholders who rely on clear and consistent quality data to improve engineering outcomes.\nWe are seeking a Junior Software Engineer to contribute to the development, testing, documentation, and operation of services and internal engineering interfaces that support this mission. This is a great opportunity for someone with solid software engineering fundamentals, practical coding experience, curiosity about developer productivity and quality systems, and a strong willingness to learn how large-scale engineering organizations measure and improve software quality.\nParticipate in the software development cycle with guidance from more experienced engineers: understand requirements, contribute to technical design, implement features, write tests, fix defects, and support deployment readiness.\nWork on straightforward business and customer problems through small-to-medium features or clearly scoped parts of larger initiatives.\nDevelop and maintain service components, APIs, data collection jobs, validation checks, automation, and internal tools that help collect, normalize, and expose engineering quality signals.\nContribute to internal applications and lightweight engineering interfaces that help teams inspect quality data, understand missing signals, and identify practical next steps.\nApply user-centered thinking with a focus on simplification, usability, reliability, secure coding practices, and privacy-aware handling of engineering data.\nWrite clean, maintainable code and unit tests with guidance, and execute relevant tests for your changes.\nParticipate in design and code reviews, address review feedback, and learn how to provide constructive review comments on changes from others.\nCreate and update technical documentation used by the team, and contribute to user-facing or operational documentation where relevant.\nDebug and troubleshoot issues in development, test, pre-production, and production environments with support from the team.\nMonitor and triage incident reports with guidance, participate in postmortems, and over time support on-call activities as appropriate for the role.\nEstimate assignments, communicate status clearly, raise blockers early, and collaborate with team members to identify paths forward.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree with 2 years of related experience, Master's degree with 0 years of related experience, or equivalent practical experience.\nBasic knowledge of software engineering theories, principles, and concepts, with exposure to current technologies through coursework, internship, professional work, open-source work, or personal projects.\nPractical coding experience in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python or Go.\nGood fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, debugging, and writing readable, maintainable code.\nBasic understanding of backend or service development concepts such as APIs, HTTP, databases, data formats, and automated testing.\nBasic understanding of the software development lifecycle and common agile engineering practices, including requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, acceptance testing, and iterative delivery.\nAbility to write functional code and unit tests with guidance.\nAbility to read logs, investigate defects, use development tools, and troubleshoot straightforward issues with support from others.\nGood communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to communicate status, blockers, and delays.\nWillingness to learn secure coding practices, reliability practices, and production support expectations.\nPreferred Qualifications\nFamiliarity with Python or Go.\nFamiliarity with backend frameworks, internal tools, data pipelines, or developer-facing systems.\nBasic knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases.\nExposure to CI/CD systems, source control systems, test automation frameworks, containers, or cloud-based development environments.\nInterest in engineering quality topics such as test coverage, contract testing, linting, pipeline reliability, release readiness, or software delivery metrics.\nExposure to secure coding principles, privacy-aware development, reliability testing, incident triage, or production support practices.\nWhat We Offer\nA team of highly capable and dedicated peers across engineering, and platform organizations.\nThe opportunity to work on meaningful internal systems that improve engineering quality and software delivery across Splunk.\nA stable, collaborative, and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, collaborate to get things done, and adapt to the team's changing needs. We keep it real by being open and honest.\nGrowth. You will have the opportunity to learn from experienced engineers, build practical software engineering skills, and gradually take on more ownership as your confidence and experience grow.\nBalance. We want you to be successful outside of work too. We trust our colleagues to be responsible with their time and commitment, and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.\nFun. We are committed to having every employee want to give it their all, be respectful, be part of the team, and have a smile on their face while doing it.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. 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