# Staff Software Engineer: Platform R&D at SolarWinds

- Company: SolarWinds
- What the company does: Backed by Insight.
- Company website: http://www.solarwinds.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin, Texas
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://jobs.solarwinds.com/job-detail/?gh_jid=4711062005&gh_jid=4711062005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/solarwinds-staff-software-engineer-platform-r-and-d/

## About the role

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform R&D organization. In this role, you will help design, build, and evolve the core backend systems that power large-scale cloud services and data-intensive platform capabilities. You will work on distributed systems that ingest, process, store, and serve high-volume operational and telemetry data while helping ensure those systems are scalable, resilient, and cost-effective.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale
- Strong experience designing distributed systems and understanding trade-offs around consistency, availability, durability, and performance
- Experience building data-intensive applications or platform services involving event-driven or streaming architectures
- Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Rust, Go, Java, Python, or similar
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized environments
- Experience with APIs, service-to-service communication patterns, and scalable data storage systems

Tags: R&D