Senior Backend Engineer – Alerts and Notification Platform

Bangalore, India

Req ID: 202155

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!

Join the Alerts and Notification Platform team powering the core of the SolarWinds Observability ecosystem. This platform serves as the backbone for multiple feature teams, enabling them to define, evaluate, and deliver alerts seamlessly to end users. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to design scalable alert evaluation pipelines, build flexible notification workflows, and ensure reliable, low-latency communication across channels.

Must-Have Qualifications

5+ years of experience as a backend engineer in a product-focused development environment.
Strong system design skills with emphasis on extensibility, scalability, and abstraction.
Proven platform mindset — ability to build reusable components and frameworks serving multiple teams.
Advanced problem-solving and debugging capabilities across distributed systems.
Solid understanding of on-call operations and incident management best practices.
Strong collaboration skills with a sense of ownership and accountability (“agency-oriented” mindset).
Excellent technical documentation and communication habits.

Technical Expertise

Hands-on experience developing and debugging JVM-based or Go applications (We heavily use Kotlin for backend).
Experience in microservice-based, event-driven architectures using modern frameworks and messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar, etc.).
Familiarity with observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) and alerting systems is a plus.

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