Senior Staff Software Engineer – Bangalore

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!

Position Overview :

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of our Tools Modernisation Portfolio. In this role, you will reimagine how enterprises observe, automate, and act upon security, cloud and monitored data. Your expertise will help guide the creation of intelligent, data-driven solutions that transform how our customers monitor and plan their distributed infrastructure and applications.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will contribute to defining the architectural direction of our observability products and drive strategic initiatives to ensure SolarWinds continues to lead in the market. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex, high-scale technical challenges while mentoring teams and influencing technical decisions.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect & Innovate : Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native observability solutions for our Tools portfolio.
• Strategic Leadership : Drive the implementation of next-generation product features and prototypes that meet customer needs while keeping an eye on market trends.
• Collaboration & Mentorship : Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, architecture, and remote engineering teams, to align product roadmaps with business goals. Mentor and elevate engineering talent through direct leadership and technical guidance.
• Customer Engagement : Collaborate with customers to understand their pain points and provide solutions that help them better observe, secure, and automate their security infrastructure.
• Thought Leadership : Stay at the forefront of industry trends, research competitive technologies, and develop disruptive, future-facing solutions.
• Tech Culture Advocate : Foster a culture of modern software development practices and open-source collaboration. Lead by example and promote architectural excellence.
• Continuous Learning : Stay up to date with emerging technologies and methodologies to influence product development.

Your Experience :

Nice-to-Have Skills :

Knowledge about GraphQL, Zoo Keeper and Kafka

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.

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Skills Required

VMware, Aws, Dropwizard, Microservices, Python, Kubernetes, Azure, Springboot, Gcp, Java Technologies