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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Solarwinds India Pvt Ltd

4.1

based on 20 Reviews

4-8 years

Bangalore / Bengaluru

1 vacancy

Senior Staff Software Engineer

SolarWinds

posted 14d ago

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Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

SQL Architecture Backend Data Processing System Design Troubleshooting

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Job Description

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!

We are seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join our Observability Platform team. In this role, youll provide technical leadership across multiple teams while driving architectural decisions that shape the future of how companies understand and monitor their distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building and scaling observability systems, and experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and high-scale data processing.

Your Role

Architect and Design: Lead the design and architecture of our observability platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and real-time data processing capabilities.
Development: Design and implement complex distributed systems that handle high-scale telemetry data ingestion and analysis using technologies like Kotlin, Go, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Technical Strategy: Partner with product leadership to translate business strategy into technical roadmaps and implement best practices that enhance platform reliability and performance.
Mentorship and Leadership: Provide mentorship, conduct architecture reviews, and establish engineering best practices to drive technical excellence across teams.
Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in distributed systems, ensuring that the observability platform remains resilient and highly performant at scale.
Collaboration: Partner with senior engineers, tech leads, and cross-functional teams to influence technical direction across multiple domains.
Community Engagement: Champion observability best practices internally and externally through technical content and community involvement.

Required Skills and Experience:

Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Kotlin and/or Go, with fundamentals in both backend and frontend development.
Distributed Systems: Extensive experience designing and implementing distributed systems with a focus on metrics, logging, and tracing at scale.
Cloud-Native: Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and service mesh.
Data Engineering: Experience with high-throughput data processing systems and real-time data pipelines.
Leadership: Proven track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, with strong system design skills centered on scalability, reliability, and performance.
Frontend Expertise: Knowledge of modern frontend architectures, web performance optimization, and frontend observability practices.
Backend Systems: Expertise in database systems (both SQL and NoSQL), container orchestration, and microservices architecture.
Performance Optimization: Proficiency in performance optimization and troubleshooting for distributed systems.
Mentorship: Experience mentoring senior engineers and guiding technical teams through complex decisions.
Communication Collaboration: Strong ability to articulate complex technical concepts to various audiences and collaborate across teams, influencing without direct authority.
Business Acumen: Understanding of business impact and ability to balance short-term and long-term priorities, making appropriate technical trade-offs."