Jobs at SolarWinds (Now Hiring) — 91 open

 

We work in hybrid mode 3+2, at least 3 days at the office (with mandatory Wednesdays and Thursdays) and 2 days at the home office.

The location of our office is Puszkarska 7J/Building E, 30-644 Kraków, Polska.

We employ only via an employment contract – FTE.

 

What you will do

SolarWinds is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 5+ years of experience to help build, operate, and improve the systems that support our products and internal platforms. This role is ideal for someone who is hands-on, dependable, and comfortable working across Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Linux, and Database environments in a production setting.

The right candidate has a strong foundation in site reliability engineering, enjoys solving problems in live environments, and understands the importance of reliability, automation, and operational discipline.

• Operate, maintain, upgrade and improve production Kubernetes clusters and workloads across AWS and Azure environments.
• Manage Kubernetes platform components and technologies such as Helm, Kustomize, operators, istio, autoscaling, and cluster/node lifecycle management.
• Support and maintain production database platforms such as ClickHouse, Aurora and other distributed data systems, including performance troubleshooting and operational health.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce operational toil and improve reliability using Python, Go, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to production incidents, and lead or contribute to incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Improve observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response across infrastructure and services.
• Partner closely with software engineering and platform teams to design and deploy reliable, scalable services.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance optimization, patching, upgrades, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Participate in reliability initiatives, including automation, resilience engineering, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including operating, upgrading and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, including:
  • Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs
  • Services, Ingress, DNS, and Kubernetes networking
  • ConfigMaps, Secrets, and persistent storage
  • Resource requests/limits and scheduling
  • Autoscaling across workloads, clusters, and nodes
  • Pod Disruption Budgets and high availability patterns
  • Kubernetes upgrades and cluster lifecycle management
• Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes at both the application workload and cluster infrastructure levels.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience operating customer facing, highly available production systems.
• Experience participating in a production on-call rotation and responding to high-severity incidents.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure concepts including compute, networking, storage, DNS, load balancing, and security.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to methodically diagnose complex distributed-system failures.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and cross-functional teams.

What we are looking for

• Ownership mindset and strong operational discipline
• Ability to stay calm and effective during incidents
• Willingness to learn, improve systems, and drive reliability-focused changes
• Practical approach to solving infrastructure and operational problems
• Team player who values clear communication and documentation
• Continuous learner stays current with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and modern SRE practices.

On-Call Expectations

This position requires participation in a scheduled on-call rotation to support production systems and help ensure service reliability and availability.

 

Our benefits:

• 10 study days per year
• 2 volunteering days per year
• 30-day holidays after 5-year tenure, Sabbatical Leave
• 4 weeks of paternity leave
• Up to 8700 PLN personal education budget per year
• 300 PLN corrective glasses reimbursement every two years
• Medical care with Luxmed – individual, partner, or family package fully paid by the company
• The company fully pays for group life insurance
• Pension scheme (employee capital plans) with 1.5% employer contribution
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• English/Polish classes
• MyBenefit platform with a monthly subsidy of 103 PLN (with various vouchers and Multisport cards available)
• 500 PLN per year of race fee reimbursement
• Solarian Referral Program
• SolarWinds Appreciation Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free lunches at the office on Wednesdays