Senior Backend Engineer
Full Job Description
About SolarWinds and the Opportunity
SolarWinds is a people-first company committed to enriching lives through simple, powerful, and secure IT solutions. We seek collaborative, accountable, and empathetic individuals ready to make an impact. Join our world-class Database Engineering organization in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, to contribute to industry-leading database performance monitoring and related applications.
This senior role involves building enterprise solutions architected for high scale, reliability, security, and performance. You will develop upon requirements, deliver impactful solutions globally, and upskill the engineering organization. This position offers the opportunity to work with multiple tech stacks, solve complex problems across various products and platforms, and define the future of database capabilities on our new Full Stack Observability SaaS platform.
Key Responsibilities of the Senior Backend Engineer
- Design and implement proof of concepts and productized features leveraging new database capabilities.
- Embrace robust engineering practices, including consistent patterns, improved observability, and comprehensive testing (unit, integration).
- Innovate beyond current technology/stack limitations to deliver feasible solutions collaboratively.
- Promote engineering excellence and enhance the database technical expertise within engineering and product teams.
- Partner with product leaders to translate customer pain points and market opportunities into clear, robust engineering solutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of industry experience, or Master’s degree with 3+ years of industry experience.
- Production experience with independent development using:
- Go APIs and business logic
- Go Agents
- Kafka
- MySQL storage
- Distributed design
- Microservices
- Ability to independently develop complex features across multiple layers (frontend, backend).
- Proven ability to drive a problem from definition to successful completion.
- Experience with DevOps principles is a plus.
Company
SolarWinds
SolarWinds is a leading global provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. We specialize in making IT look easy for businesses worldwide by delivering simple, powerful, and secure solu...