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

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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. Your Impact Serve as the performance authority for critical issues, roadmap planning, architecture reviews, and customer conversations. Set technical direction across teams. • Lead a performance domain end to end -hypothesis, instrumentation, design, measured customer-visible gain in production including cross-team problems nobody has framed yet. • Architect for scale - design and re-architect subsystems in a distributed,…