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We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join the development team of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted platform. This team will be responsible for reinventing observability in enterprises, reimagining, conceiving, and building solutions that apply intelligence to how our customers observe, act & automate all aspects of work. We bring to life products that are powered by data and AI and develop and deliver a range of solutions that work seamlessly with the rich product offerings from SolarWinds across network, infrastructure, applications, data, security, and business observability.
This will be ideal for you if you enjoy building modern cloud native platform services that are architected for high scale, reliability, security, and performance, are adept at bold early-stage ideas that can be developed through execution to impact customers on a global scale, and are also able to upskill the engineering organization by example.
In this role, you will work with our product managers, cross-functional engineering teams, and data scientists to define solutions that leverage statistical & deep learning technologies, build and execute on strategic product roadmaps, and design architectures to scale these solutions across our global customer base.
Your Impact:
- Lead technical efforts through all phases of the software development process — from early design phases through to customers and support
- Collaborate cross-functionally and cross-product to make major improvements to our platform and services
- Help shape our engineering practices through a broad approach to engineering quality (consistent and thoughtful patterns, improved observability, unit and integration testing, etc.)
- Develop for developers through APIs and services that allow for extensibility
- Participate in innovation time to build features for our customers and tools for our engineering teams
Your Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of industry experience, or Master’s degree with 7+ years of industry experience
- Experience integrating AI/ML models and LLM-based solutions into enterprise workflows for predictive analytics and conversational interfaces
- Full-stack developer with strong experience in C# .NET / Angular tech stack.
- A good amount of exposure to security-related concepts and understanding
- Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices
- Experience working with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, VMWare, and/or Kubernetes
- Strong database skills, including experience with SQL Server databases
- Contain the ability and willingness to learn and apply new technologies
- Have the skills to develop clean and maintainable code and follow commonly used practices, e.g. unit/automation testing, secure product development, etc.
Nice to have:
- Has exposure to RESTful, Web API, WPF, and WCF Services
- Solid understanding of REST & GraphQL
- Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes, Micro Services, and SaaS architecture
- Prior experience working in the network monitoring domain is an added advantage
- Knowledge of CI/CD principles
- Experience in building scalable applications
- We work in hybrid mode 3+2, with a minimum of 3 days at the office and 2 days in the home office.
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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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.
