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Join the Alerts and Notification Platform team powering the core of the SolarWinds Observability ecosystem. This platform serves as the backbone for multiple feature teams, enabling them to define, evaluate, and deliver alerts seamlessly to end users. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to design scalable alert evaluation pipelines, build flexible notification workflows, and ensure reliable, low-latency communication across channels.
Must-Have Qualifications- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer in a product-focused development environment.
- Strong system design skills with emphasis on extensibility, scalability, and abstraction.
- Proven platform mindset — ability to build reusable components and frameworks serving multiple teams.
- Advanced problem-solving and debugging capabilities across distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of on-call operations and incident management best practices.
- Strong collaboration skills with a sense of ownership and accountability (“agency-oriented” mindset).
- Excellent technical documentation and communication habits.
- Hands-on experience developing and debugging JVM-based or Go applications (We heavily use Kotlin for backend).
- Experience in microservice-based, event-driven architectures using modern frameworks and messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar, etc.).
- Familiarity with observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) and alerting systems is a plus.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer in a product-focused development environment
- Strong system design skills with emphasis on extensibility, scalability, and abstraction
- Proven platform mindset for building reusable components and frameworks
- Advanced problem-solving and debugging capabilities across distributed systems
- Solid understanding of on-call operations and incident management best practices
- Strong collaboration skills with a sense of ownership and accountability
- Excellent technical documentation and communication habits
- Experience developing JVM-based or Go applications (Kotlin preferred)
- Experience in microservice-based, event-driven architectures using modern frameworks and messaging systems
- Familiarity with observability stacks and alerting systems
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.
