Principal Architect

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: Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Barriers to entry such as technical committee review exist at this level. Responsibilities Works on significant components in the product; plans and executes cross-functional projects. Makes final decisions that impact business results; teaches the business model to others as a part of regular work; provides guidance and coaching on design and best practices to any product team. Promotes test automation and its improvements; resolves the most complex escalations & customer issues, root cause analysis, issue prevention and product improvements; proposes and drives cross-product engineering improvement plans/roadmaps. Sets the technical strategy for one or more product lines; effectively represents the product and SolarWinds internally with executives and employees as well as externally with partners and customers; represents engineering during M&A due diligence. Mentors developers and architects and leads other architects. Mentors and coaches’ engineers across the company; provides guidance to engineering management and product management on ideas feasibility and options across products. Understands SWI business/engineering model and sets priorities accordingly; considers perspectives of business stakeholders. Provides multiple solutions to problem, discusses pros/cons while balancing long-term strategy and short-term goals; drives cross teams’ projects, coaching others and uses coaching techniques, letting people figure out their solutions. Contributes to the development of product strategy and provides technical leadership in the development of new products, processes, or technologies in support of this strategy; determines strategy and action plans on companywide projects. Provides regular feedback and helps engineers grow. Asks for feedback and works on own skills improvements; demonstrates proactivity and focuses on