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About the Role
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Platform Connect team. This team is responsible for building the foundational platform that enables seamless integration across products, services, and external systems.
In this role, you will design, build, and own backend services that power core platform capabilities such as feature entitlements, usage metering, integrations, and platform APIs. You will independently deliver scoped features and improvements within one or more services, while contributing to the scalability, reliability, and extensibility of the Platform Connect ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power Platform Connect capabilities such as entitlements, usage tracking, integrations, and platform APIs
- Own small to medium-sized features and scoped improvements end to end, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
- Develop scalable, secure, and maintainable APIs for internal and external consumers
- Work on service-to-service integrations across platform components such as identity, billing, metering, and tenant management systems
- Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimate work, and proactively surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs
- Debug production issues, participate in incident response, and improve system reliability, performance, and operational readiness
- Contribute to code reviews, testing, documentation, and engineering best practices across the team
- Improve observability through logging, monitoring, tracing, and actionable operational metrics
- Collaborate closely with product managers, QA, and peer engineering teams to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities
- Contribute to internal tools, scripts, and engineering improvements that raise delivery quality and developer productivity
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 3–5 years of backend software development experience
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and core computer science fundamentals
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, or Go
- Experience designing and building REST APIs and backend services in a distributed or service-oriented environment
- Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Experience with Git, code reviews, testing practices, and standard software development workflows
- Ability to debug application and production issues and deliver maintainable, high-quality code
- Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with microservices-based architecture and distributed systems
- Familiarity with backend frameworks such as Spring Boot, Express/NestJS, Django, or similar
- Working knowledge of platform concepts such as:
- Feature entitlements and access control
- Usage metering and billing systems
- API gateways and service-to-service communication
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices
- Exposure to messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ and caching technologies such as Redis
- Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth, JWT, RBAC, and ABAC
- Experience with observability and operational tooling for monitoring and troubleshooting production systems
Key Skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
- Ability to write clean, scalable, secure, and maintainable backend code
- Ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive scoped work to completion
- Sound engineering judgment for routine technical tradeoffs and implementation decisions
- Curiosity to understand platform-level systems, integrations, and customer impact
- Good collaboration, communication, and knowledge-sharing skills
What You’ll Work On
- Platform APIs powering cross-product integrations
- Feature entitlement systems and access control layers
- Usage metering pipelines and tenant-level tracking
- Service integrations across identity, billing, and product systems
- Foundational platform services that enable scalable product growth
Growth Opportunities
- Deepen your expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and platform engineering
- Gain hands-on experience with production-grade, multi-tenant backend systems
- Build ownership across the full service lifecycle, from design to production operations
- Grow into more advanced technical scope across architecture, system design, and cross-team platform initiatives
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 3-5 years of backend software development experience
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and core computer science fundamentals
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, or Go
- Experience designing and building REST APIs and backend services in a distributed or service-oriented environment
- Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Experience with Git, code reviews, testing practices, and standard software development workflows
- Ability to debug application and production issues and deliver maintainable, high-quality code
- Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- Experience with microservices-based architecture and distributed systems
- Familiarity with backend frameworks such as Spring Boot, Express/NestJS, Django, or similar
- Working knowledge of feature entitlements, usage metering, and billing systems
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices
- Exposure to messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ and caching technologies such as Redis
- Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth, JWT, RBAC, and ABAC
- Experience with observability and operational tooling for monitoring and troubleshooting production 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.
