Vultr

Senior Software Engineer - Tooling & Automation

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1 month ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$125k - $135k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Map alert sources from Systems, Network, and Security engineering and identify appropriate integration methods.
  • Build and maintain alert routing and forwarding into GIOC ticketing and paging tools while preserving severity and triage context.
  • Validate routing logic and resolve-versus-escalate boundaries with engineering subject-matter experts.
  • Own on-call and notification wiring so critical alerts meet acknowledgment SLAs without manual relay.
  • Design and build a unified operational dashboard across five datacenter and provider platforms.
  • Define and deliver the initial dashboard scope with GIOC and pillar leads.
  • Run legacy tools and the new dashboard in parallel during the transition.
  • Build SLA and operational health visualizations for acknowledgment time, escalation accuracy, and open-alert aging.
  • Build correlation engines and integrate telemetry from various product teams.
  • Document the routing architecture and dashboard for ongoing maintenance by GIOC or the Tools team.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of experience in Tools/Platform Engineering or a similar infrastructure role.
  • 3–5 years of hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting tooling, including Icinga or equivalent NMS, Grafana, and at least one SIEM platform such as Splunk, QRadar, or Sentinel.
  • Experience mapping and consolidating unfamiliar, multi-team monitoring and alerting environments, ideally in cloud, hosting, or multi-datacenter operations.
  • 3+ years building integrations against APIs or webhooks, with scripting ability in Python or a similar language.
  • 2–3 years building or substantially modifying operational dashboards using Grafana, Kibana, Power BI, or similar tools.
  • Understanding of ticketing and ITSM workflows and how alert priority and severity map into ticket fields.
  • Preferred experience with multi-provider or datacenter operational environments and NOC, SOC, or similar 24x7 operations functions.
  • Equivalent hands-on Vultr experience is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums.
  • 401(k) matching at 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting.
  • $2,500 annual professional development reimbursement.
  • 11 holidays plus paid time off accrual and rollover.
  • Increased PTO at 3-year and 10-year anniversaries, a one-month paid sabbatical every five years, and an annual anniversary bonus.
  • $500 remote office setup stipend in the first year and $400 annually thereafter.
  • Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month.
  • Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month.
  • Company-paid Wellable subscription.

Tech Stack

GrafanaKibanaPythonSplunk

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About Vultr

201-500 employees

Vultr builds and operates a self-service cloud infrastructure platform offering Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, object storage, and managed Kubernetes for developers, startups, and enterprises. It runs in 33 data center locations worldwide and sells on-demand IaaS and GPU capacity, including AI infrastructure. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, Vultr is privately held and announced a private equity financing in 2024.

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