Staff DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Support and optimize CircleCI and hybrid CI environments, including self-hosted runners and executors
• Partner with Software Engineering and SRE teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows
• Develop automation, platform tooling, and internal services using Go or similar languages
• Implement and promote CI/CD security best practices, including secrets management, image signing, policy enforcement, and vulnerability scanning
• Contribute to platform architecture decisions, technical standards, and engineering best practices
• Improve build performance, reliability, and developer productivity through automation and self-service capabilities
• Mentor engineers and help raise the bar for operational excellence across the platform

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability, or related roles
• Strong hands-on experience with CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
• Strong understanding of CI/CD design patterns, build systems, and release workflows
• Software engineering background with ability to write and maintain production-quality code
• Experience with Go or willingness to work with Go and AI-assisted coding tools
• Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, and IaC
• Solid understanding of CI/CD security concepts including IAM, OIDC, and secrets management
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

About the Company

SolarWinds is a people-first company dedicated to helping customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.