{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"de96df5c10c4186976d191da","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/de96df5c10c4186976d191da","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/de96df5c10c4186976d191da","title":"Java Backend with Splunk","description":"Java Backend Engineer with Reliability Engineering / Splunk Full Time + Benefits\r\n100% REMOTE Must be visa independent for this role.\r\nWe are looking for a highly skilled Java Backend Engineer with Reliability Engineering experience to help design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and observable backend services. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Java/Spring Boot , microservices, API development, and a deep understanding of Splunk for observability, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting.\r\nThis role focuses on improving application reliability, performance, and logging quality across distributed systems while collaborating with DevOps, SRE, and platform teams.\r\nKey Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java (8+) , Spring Boot , and microservices architecture.\r\nBuild scalable RESTful APIs and backend components with strong emphasis on performance and security.\r\nImprove service reliability through better error handling, resiliency patterns, and design best practices.\r\nContribute to architecture discussions, technical design, and code reviews.\r\nReliability Engineering & Observability Implement and maintain application observability using Splunk (dashboards, alerts, log analysis, correlation searches).\r\nOptimize log ingestion pipelines and ensure consistent logging standards (structured logs, correlation IDs, trace IDs).\r\nMonitor application health, performance metrics, latency, errors, and resource utilization.\r\nTroubleshoot production issues by analyzing logs, SPL queries, and monitoring data.\r\nIdentify and resolve reliability bottlenecks and proactively improve system stability.\r\nSystems Performance & Monitoring Develop actionable Splunk dashboards for service KPIs, throughput, latency, and error rates.\r\nSet up real-time alerts to detect anomalies, failures, or degradation in service behavior.\r\nTune SPL queries to improve performance and reduce compute cost.\r\nWork with DevOps/SRE teams to strengthen monitoring, alerting, and incident response.\r\nRequired Skills & Qualifications Strong experience with Java (8 or above) , Spring Boot , and REST API development.\r\nSolid understanding of microservices , multi-threading, and design patterns.\r\nHands-on expertise with Splunk :\r\nDashboards (Classic or Dashboard Studio)\r\nAlerts and reports\r\nField extractions & log parsing\r\nDeep knowledge of logging frameworks (Log4j2, SLF4J, Logback).\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Redleo Software","rawCompany":"redleo software","city":"Trenton","state":"NJ","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T09:08:27.486Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Java Backend with Splunk","description":"Java Backend Engineer with Reliability Engineering / Splunk Full Time + Benefits\r\n100% REMOTE Must be visa independent for this role.\r\nWe are looking for a highly skilled Java Backend Engineer with Reliability Engineering experience to help design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and observable backend services. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Java/Spring Boot , microservices, API development, and a deep understanding of Splunk for observability, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting.\r\nThis role focuses on improving application reliability, performance, and logging quality across distributed systems while collaborating with DevOps, SRE, and platform teams.\r\nKey Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java (8+) , Spring Boot , and microservices architecture.\r\nBuild scalable RESTful APIs and backend components with strong emphasis on performance and security.\r\nImprove service reliability through better error handling, resiliency patterns, and design best practices.\r\nContribute to architecture discussions, technical design, and code reviews.\r\nReliability Engineering & Observability Implement and maintain application observability using Splunk (dashboards, alerts, log analysis, correlation searches).\r\nOptimize log ingestion pipelines and ensure consistent logging standards (structured logs, correlation IDs, trace IDs).\r\nMonitor application health, performance metrics, latency, errors, and resource utilization.\r\nTroubleshoot production issues by analyzing logs, SPL queries, and monitoring data.\r\nIdentify and resolve reliability bottlenecks and proactively improve system stability.\r\nSystems Performance & Monitoring Develop actionable Splunk dashboards for service KPIs, throughput, latency, and error rates.\r\nSet up real-time alerts to detect anomalies, failures, or degradation in service behavior.\r\nTune SPL queries to improve performance and reduce compute cost.\r\nWork with DevOps/SRE teams to strengthen monitoring, alerting, and incident response.\r\nRequired Skills & Qualifications Strong experience with Java (8 or above) , Spring Boot , and REST API development.\r\nSolid understanding of microservices , multi-threading, and design patterns.\r\nHands-on expertise with Splunk :\r\nDashboards (Classic or Dashboard Studio)\r\nAlerts and reports\r\nField extractions & log parsing\r\nDeep knowledge of logging frameworks (Log4j2, SLF4J, Logback).\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-04-09T09:08:27.486Z","dateModified":"2026-04-09T09:08:27.486Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Redleo Software","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Trenton","addressRegion":"NJ","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"de96df5c10c4186976d191da"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/de96df5c10c4186976d191da"}}