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About the Role
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform R&D organization. In this role, you will help design, build, and evolve the core backend systems that power large-scale cloud services and data-intensive platform capabilities. You will work on distributed systems that ingest, process, store, and serve high-volume operational and telemetry data while helping ensure those systems are scalable, resilient, and cost-effective. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering problems, raising the bar on architecture and operational excellence, and partnering across teams to deliver foundational platform capabilities used broadly across the business.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement distributed backend systems that support high-throughput, low-latency data and service workloads
- Lead architecture and technical direction for services involved in data ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving
- Build and improve real-time and near-real-time data pipelines for large-scale platform use cases
- Drive system reliability, scalability, and operability through strong design, observability, and automation practices
- Partner with peer engineering teams to define interfaces, evolve schemas, and support safe integration patterns across services
- Improve system performance across storage, compute, messaging, caching, and API layers
- Establish sound approaches for fault tolerance, failure recovery, rollout safety, and capacity planning
- Contribute to technical strategy and execution for platform modernization and backend architecture evolution
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and operational leadership
- Participate in incident response and post-incident improvement work, with a focus on durable fixes and stronger platform foundations
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale
- Strong experience designing distributed systems and understanding trade-offs around consistency, availability, durability, and performance
- Experience building data-intensive applications or platform services involving event-driven or streaming architectures
- Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Rust, Go, Java, Python, or similar
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized environments
- Experience with APIs, service-to-service communication patterns, and scalable data storage systems
- Strong debugging and performance tuning skills across complex, multi-service systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically across team boundaries and influence architecture without relying solely on authority
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly
Skills
- Observability
- Telemetry
- Large-scale data platform architectures
- Stream processing
- Message brokers
- Asynchronous system design
- Distributed databases
- Analytical data stores
- High-scale storage systems
- Kubernetes
- Cloud platform operations
- Reliability
- Cost efficiency
- Developer velocity
- Internal platform capabilities
- Schema evolution
- Metadata management
- Data modeling
- Distributed systems
Experience Level
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
About the Company
- At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.
- The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!
Equal Opportunity
- 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