Lead Software Architect

About us: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 usAbout the Job:We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join the development team of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted platform. This team will be responsible for reinventing observability in enterprises, reimagining, conceiving, and building solutions that apply intelligence to how our customers observe, act & automate all aspects of work. We bring to life products that are powered by data and AI and develop and deliver a range of solutions that work seamlessly with the rich product offerings from SolarWinds across network, infrastructure, applications, data, security, and business observability.This will be ideal for you if you enjoy building modern cloud native platform services that are architected for high scale, reliability, security and performance, are adept at bold early-stage ideas that can be developed through execution to impact customers on a global scale and are also able to upskill the engineering organization by example.In this role, you will work with our product managers, cross-functional engineering teams, and data scientists to define solutions that leverage statistical & deep learning technologies, build and execute on strategic product roadmaps, and design architectures to scale these solutions across our global customer base.Your Impact:Lead technical efforts through all phases of the software development process — from early design phases through to customers and supportCollaborate cross-functionally and cross-product to make major improvements to our platform and servicesHelp shape our engineering practices through a broad approach to engineering quality (consistent and thoughtful patterns, improved observability, unit and integration testing, etc.)Develop for developers through APIs and services that allow for extensibilityParticipate in innovation time to build features for our customers and tools for our engineering teamsYour Experience:Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of industry experience, or Master’s degree with 7+ years of industry experienceFull stack developer with a strong experience on C# .NET / Angular tech stack.Good amount of exposure to security related concepts and understandingSolid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practicesExperience working with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, VMWare and/or KubernetesStrong database skills, including experience with SQL Server databasesContain the ability and willingness to learn and apply new technologiesHave the skills to develop clean and maintainable code and follow commonly used practices, e.G. unit/automation testing, secure product development, etc.Nice to have:Has exposure to Restful, Web API, WPF, WCF ServicesSolid understanding of REST & GraphQLKnowledge of Docker/Kubernetes, Micro Services and SaaS architecturePrior experience working in network monitoring domain is an added advantageKnowledge of CI/CD principlesExperience in building scalable applicationsWe work in hybrid mode 3+2, at minimum of 3 days at the office and 2 days in home office.