Senior Software Engineer
SolarWinds17 days ago
Brno, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain internal platform services that provide visibility into service ownership, costs, dependencies, and health.
- Develop REST APIs and integrations connecting source control, identity, CI/CD, and cost-data systems.
- Design automation for self-service workflows, ChatOps interactions, and scheduled agents that surface actionable insights.
- Contribute to FinOps tooling for cloud cost attribution across services and teams.
- Improve service catalog data quality and support policy and automation powered by reliable ownership and dependency data.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to turn developer friction points into durable platform capabilities.
- Participate in rotating sprint hero duty, including monitoring platform health, triaging requests, and unblocking the team.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code changes that provision and configure owned systems.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, developer tooling, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Python, the team’s primary language.
- Experience building and maintaining REST APIs using FastAPI or a similar framework.
- Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and CircleCI.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and webhooks, including GitHub, Slack, and AWS.
- Strong written communication and the ability to collaborate asynchronously across distributed teams.
- Experience with Go, gRPC, protobuf, GraphQL APIs, FinOps, internal developer portals, service catalogs, CMDB-style data products, Entra ID/Azure AD, SCIM, or SSO integrations is preferred.
- Interest in developer experience, ownership of operational improvements, reliability-focused practices, infrastructure problem-solving, documentation, and continuous learning is expected.
Benefits
- Hybrid 3+2 work arrangement with at least 3 office days, mandatory Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and up to 2 home-office days.
- Full-time employment under an employment contract (HPP) at the Brno, Czech Republic office.
- 25 vacation days, 3 sick days, 10 study days, and 2 volunteering days per year.
- Four weeks of holidays after five years of tenure and sabbatical leave.
- Annual personal education budget of up to 48,300 CZK.
- Pension or life insurance matching contribution of up to 3% of salary or 4,000 CZK per month.
- Meal allowance of 95 CZK per working day.
- LinkedIn Learning, English and Czech classes, Multisport card, and employee assistance.
- Referral, appreciation, donation-matching, and race-reimbursement programs.
- Breakfast on Wednesdays and fresh fruit and snacks on Mondays.
About SolarWinds
SolarWinds builds IT operations and observability software used by IT departments and MSPs to monitor networks, servers, databases, applications, logs, and help desks. It sells subscriptions and licenses for on-premises and SaaS products such as SolarWinds Observability and the Orion Platform; founded in 1999 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker SWI.