Sr. Staff Distributed Systems Engineer

Overview 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! Your Role: Are you someone who wants to level up in your career while working on some of the most exciting problems in the industry? As a distributed systems engineer, you’ll have a significant impact on the growth of our business through building and scaling our cloud telemetry platform. We look for competent and committed candidates to the SolarWinds mission and display exemplary attitudes. We’ve built our telemetry platform on Kafka, Clickhouse, Zookeeper, and MySQL and work primarily in Go and Kotlin. We use Git/GitHub to manage & review code, communicate over Slack, push code to production via our ChatOps bot, and run all production applications on AWS, GCP, and Azure. We are a distributed team committed to a healthy work/life balance and prefer asynchronous communication to meetings. Our team prioritizes learning, personal development, and career growth - you will have many opportunities. Responsibilities Your Impact: Design scalable solutions that enable elegant and straightforward management of complex distributed systems Devise strategies to ingest, store, and analyze terabytes of observability data per day on multiple cloud providers Drive adoption of the SolarWinds cloud telemetry platform by collaborating closely with application engineers across the company Modernize how we handle telemetry data by investing in open standards such as OpenTelemetry Qualifications Your Experience: You are adept at working with a high-performing team to build modern distributed systems. You care deeply about developer experience and expect to iterate as we work towards performance goals and find the proper ergonomics for application developers using our platform. 6+ years of experience with building and operating distributed systems Familiarity and skill with concurrency primitives Fluent in at least one statically-typed language like Java, Kotlin, Go, C++ Devoted to software engineering best practices, including agile development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting Ability to execute plans and act with urgency Agile with a collaborative, curious, and inventive mindset Demonstrates high emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and makes thoughtful recommendations Understands customer focus and solutions Driven to help others Excellent verbal and written communication skills Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluent Bit/FluentD, Zipkin, or OpenTelemetry a plus!