Software Engineer

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. Solar...

We work in a hybrid mode 3+2, with a minimum of 3 days at the office (with mandatory Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and a maximum of 2 days at the home office.

SolarWinds is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Platform Insights team, the team responsible for the tools and platforms that help SolarWinds engineers build better, faster, and with more confidence. You will help us build, integrate, and evolve these platforms as SolarWinds moves toward an agent-oriented engineering model.
Build and maintain internal platform services that give engineering teams visibility into their services, ownership, costs, and health — across the full software development lifecycle
Develop and extend REST APIs and integrations that connect our engineering ecosystem: source control, identity, CI/CD, and cost data
Design and ship automation that reduces manual toil for engineers — from self-service workflows and ChatOps interactions to scheduled agents that surface actionable insights
Contribute to the FinOps tooling that tracks and reports cloud cost attribution across hundreds of services and teams
Help evolve our approach to service catalog data quality — ownership, dependencies, and team relationships — and make that data reliable enough to power policy and automation
Work closely with engineering teams across the organization as internal customers, translating their friction points into durable platform capabilities
Take rotating sprint hero duty — monitoring platform health, triaging incoming requests, and keeping the team unblocked
Collaborate on infrastructure-as-code changes that provision and configure the systems your team owns

4+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, developer tooling, or a related field.
Proficiency in Python — the team's primary language across all services
Experience building and maintaining REST APIs (FastAPI or similar framework)
Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes — all team services run in k8s
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and workflows (we run CircleCI)
Comfort integrating with third-party APIs and webhooks (GitHub, Slack, AWS, etc.)
Strong written communication — we rely on async collaboration across distributed teams
Experience with Go
Familiarity with gRPC and protobuf
Experience with GraphQL APIs (client-side — querying GitHub GraphQL, Jira, etc.)
Exposure to FinOps, cloud cost visibility, or financial data tooling
Familiarity with Internal Developer Portals, service catalogs, or CMDB-style data products
Exposure to Entra ID / Azure AD, SCIM provisioning, or SSO integrations (GitHub Teams, SAML)
Prior experience contributing to platform, developer experience, or internal tooling teams
What we are looking for
Genuine interest in developer experience — you find it meaningful to make other engineers' lives easier
Ownership mindset and strong discipline: you notice gaps, raise them, and drive them to resolution
Willingness to learn, improve systems, and drive reliability-focused changes
Practical approach to solving infrastructure and operational problems
Team player who values clear communication and documentation, with a habit of sharing context and decisions
Continuous learner who stays current with new technologies and modern engineering practices