Staff Software Engineer: Platform R&D
SolarWinds2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement distributed backend systems supporting high-throughput, low-latency data and service workloads.
- Lead architecture and technical direction for services handling data ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving.
- Build and improve real-time and near-real-time data pipelines for large-scale platform use cases.
- Drive reliability, scalability, operability, observability, automation, fault tolerance, recovery, rollout safety, and capacity planning.
- Partner across engineering teams on interfaces, schema evolution, and safe service integration patterns.
- Improve performance across storage, compute, messaging, caching, and API layers.
- Contribute to platform modernization and backend architecture strategy and execution.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and operational leadership.
- Participate in incident response and post-incident improvement work.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale.
- Strong distributed-systems expertise, including trade-offs involving consistency, availability, durability, and performance.
- Experience building data-intensive applications or platform services with event-driven or streaming architectures.
- Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Rust, Go, Java, or Python.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, containerized environments, APIs, service-to-service communication, and scalable data storage systems.
- Strong debugging and performance-tuning skills across complex, multi-service systems.
- Ability to lead technically across team boundaries and influence architecture.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with observability, telemetry, stream processing, message brokers, distributed databases, analytical data stores, Kubernetes, cloud platform operations, schema evolution, metadata management, data modeling, and cross-functional technical initiatives.
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.