Senior Software Engineer - APIs and Tools

SolarWinds; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their innovative team in Austin. This role focuses on building scalable APIs and solutions for data retrieval and analysis, enabling customers to extract valuable insights from complex observability data. You will collaborate with product teams, mentor junior engineers, and tackle challenging technical problems in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about creating impactful developer experiences and thrive in a collaborative setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing robust software solutions.
• Hands-on experience with graph and time-series databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance APIs for data querying.
• Lead initiatives to improve query performance and data accessibility.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Go

GraphQL

REST

Graph Databases

Time-Series Databases

Statistical Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - APIs and Tools

Senior Software Engineer - APIs and Tools

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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!

About the Team

The Observability Platform team at SolarWinds builds the foundational APIs and services that power our next-generation observability products. On the Telemetry and Data APIs team, you'll be responsible for building the APIs at the core of our products, focusing specifically on our platform's data retrieval and analysis side.

Your Role

• As a Software Engineer on the Telemetry and Data APIs team, you'll help shape how SolarWinds teams get data out of our platform. You'll be responsible for building scalable solutions to some of our most challenging technical problems while optimizing for ease of use and sustainability, all centered on data retrieval, querying, and analysis.
• Your Impact
• Design and implement high-performance APIs that enable efficient querying of billions of telemetry data points
• Architect solutions that help customers extract meaningful insights from complex observability data
• Lead technical initiatives to improve query performance, data accessibility, and response time
• Develop flexible data models that support diverse customer use cases and visualization needs
• Collaborate with product teams to build intuitive data access patterns that meet evolving customer needs
• Mentor junior engineers in API design and data retrieval best practices

Your Experience

• We understand that the perfect candidate doesn't exist on paper. If you're passionate about building scalable data retrieval systems and have experience with some, but not all, of the technologies listed below, we still encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives, eagerness to learn, and the ability to solve complex problems over checking every box in a list of requirements.
• Demonstrated proficiency in designing and implementing robust software solutions using Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar languages
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs using technologies like GraphQL and REST
• Track record of working with observability products and understanding their unique data requirements
• Hands-on experience with graph databases for storing and querying complex relationship data
• Practical knowledge of time-series databases and their optimization techniques for telemetry data
• Applied understanding of statistical concepts as they relate to data analysis and visualization
• Proven ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic solutions in a fast-paced environment
• We believe in empowering our team members to make a meaningful impact. If you’re passionate about creating great developer experiences and want to help shape the future of observability, we’d love to talk with you.

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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