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We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Core Engineering organization at SolarWinds. This role requires strong technical ownership, deep CI/CD and platform engineering expertise, and the ability to design scalable, secure, and reliable developer infrastructure. The team is responsible for enabling the platforms, automation, and delivery capabilities that help engineering teams build, test, deploy, and operate high-quality services efficiently.
Responsibilities- Support and optimize CircleCI and hybrid CI environments, including self-hosted runners and executors.
- Partner with Software Engineering and SRE teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Develop automation, platform tooling, and internal services using Go or similar languages.
- Implement and promote CI/CD security best practices, including secrets management, image signing, policy enforcement, and vulnerability scanning.
- Contribute to platform architecture decisions, technical standards, and engineering best practices.
- Improve build performance, reliability, and developer productivity through automation and self-service capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and help raise the bar for operational excellence across the platform.
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability, or related roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with CircleCI or a comparable SaaS CI/CD platform such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD design patterns, build systems, release workflows, and automation best practices.
- Software engineering background with the ability to write, maintain, and review production-quality code.
- Experience with Go, or willingness to work with Go and AI-assisted coding tools in day-to-day development.
- Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code practices.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD security concepts, including IAM, OIDC, secrets management, and secure software supply chain practices.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
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.
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Skills Required
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production
- Experience in AWS and/or Azure environments
- Experience with multiple programming languages in large-scale systems
- Experience building or operating Internal Developer Portals
- Experience running distributed test infrastructure
- Familiarity with CI/CD integration patterns
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.
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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.
