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About the Team & the Role
Our Network & Infrastructure Observability (NIO) domain is a core part of SolarWinds Observability (SWO)—a modern, cloud-native platform that helps customers understand and operate complex hybrid IT environments.
NIO focuses on how customers monitor and manage their networks and infrastructure in the cloud, including areas like network performance, topology, collectors, SD-WAN, IPAM, discovery, configuration, and API-based monitoring.
SWO is a modern cloud platform built with technologies like .NET and React, focused on building new capabilities rather than maintaining legacy systems.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one or more Scrum teams of software engineers in this domain. You will collaborate closely with two other Engineering Managers in Brno and jointly contribute to leading 10 Scrum teams within NIO.
This role combines people leadership and technical understanding, with a focus on building strong teams, delivering customer value, and ensuring smooth execution. You will work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, UX, SRE, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality cloud services used by thousands of customers worldwide.
Responsibilities:
- Lead one or more Scrum teams of software engineers.
- Collaborate with other Engineering Managers in Brno to align direction across 10 teams.
- Create an environment of trust, psychological safety, and accountability.
- Hire, onboard, and develop engineers, including senior engineers and tech leads.
- Support career growth, provide regular feedback, and drive performance management.
- Foster a positive, proactive, and collaborative team culture.
- Ensure your teams deliver reliably and predictably in an agile environment.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to translate priorities into execution.
- Help teams balance feature delivery, technical debt, and operational work.
- Remove blockers, improve processes, and increase team effectiveness.
- Support resolution of escalations and critical issues when needed.
- Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to define and execute roadmaps aligned with customer needs and business goals.
- Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable cloud services.
- Balance feature delivery, technical debt, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with Support, Customer Success, and Sales on escalations and critical customer issues.
- Drive improvements in usability, performance, and overall customer experience.
- Promote the use of AI as a daily engineering tool (e.g., GitHub Copilot and similar technologies).
- Encourage teams to leverage AI to improve productivity, code quality, and development workflows.
- Collaborate on building AI-powered product capabilities within observability.
- Foster an AI-first mindset across teams and continuously explore new opportunities.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (or similar leadership role) in a product engineering environment.
- Strong ability to lead, motivate, and grow engineering teams.
- Experience with SW development
- Experience working in agile environments with Scrum teams.
- Strong customer focus and understanding of production systems.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, UX, SRE, and other stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills and ability to align people around shared goals.
Communications:
- Fluent in Czech or Slovak and English (both written and spoken).
- Proactive, energetic, and positive approach to leadership.
- Ownership mindset with strong execution focus.
- Ability to create clarity in complex environments.
- Empathy toward both customers and team members.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice
Skills Required
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role
- Experience with software development
- Experience working in agile environments with Scrum teams
- Strong customer focus and understanding of production systems
- Fluent in Czech or Slovak and English
- Strong ability to lead and motivate engineering teams
- Experience with cloud products or SaaS environments
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
SolarWinds Insights
What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
