Sr. Software Engineer - Solutions Development

*This position can be remote within the US*

What we’re looking for…

ScienceLogic is looking for an ambitious Software Engineer who loves creating high-quality software while working on a friendly and collaborative team. Ideal candidates will help refine requirements, build new features, improve code quality, and help build a state-of-the-art product.

Who we are…

Software Engineering at ScienceLogic is comprised of small teams of intelligent and innovative engineers who love a good technical challenge and enjoy working together to tackle problems. We build software that helps our customers keep their IT operations running efficiently. Each of us is committed to teamwork, quality, and innovation. We celebrate both successes and failures, so long as we learn from the failures.

What you’ll be doing...

Managing today’s hybrid cloud IT infrastructure can be complex and chaotic. As a Software Engineer with ScienceLogic, you will help create the solutions to tame the complexity for some of the largest companies and service providers in the world. Some of the work you will be doing includes:

• Contribute to building and maintaining highly scalable software with minimal direction.
• This software is written in python and is used for data collection, data manipulation, data pruning, trending, and analytics, etc.
• Our goal is to represent external systems in our platform and use the insights from that data to bring relevant data to our customers
• You will build on the SL1 platform to integrate with, and monitor, diverse technologies
• Quality is important to us so you will write and maintain unit tests and other automated tests. You will also help to correct defects
• Being actively involved with the team
• Take an active role in understanding and prioritizing technical debt
• Advocating for the team’s needs as part of backlog maintenance
• Actively contribute to Scrum reviews, standups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming
• Collaborate with your team members so that we can work together in solving challenges
• Help to keep good engineering practices as our standard
• This role is work with a team focused on Cloud and Data Center technologies
• Focus on modeling and collecting metrics for AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and other similar technologies
• Build and operate tools that automate the creation of monitoring integrations
• Improve efficiency by incorporating asynchronous IO into your code
• Helping in modernizing existing libraries and code

Qualities you possess…

You’re a self-starter, a problem solver, love to code, have excellent time-management skills, communicate clearly, and are open and collaborative. 

• You meet the following criteria:
• BS in a programming field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience with software engineering concepts such as:
  • Functional and Object-Oriented programming
  • Threading and multi-processing
  • Efficiently consuming remote APIs
  • Design Patterns
• 5+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, programming, or a related field.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, idiomatic python code
• You are passionate about delivering high-quality, production-ready code and believe that teams, not individuals, are responsible for software quality.

You have confidence that you can either do the following, or learn to do the following:

• Use MySQL/NoSQL and have the ability to evaluate and write efficient queries.
• Use Linux with the ability to navigate, write scripts and work with packages.
• Code with a working knowledge of:
  • Developing multi-threaded or multi-process software.
  • The software development lifecycle, from product backlog through delivery.
  • Modern industry standard build tools
  • Advanced bash scripting
• Understand network or systems management or administration
• Work in an Agile environment with an emphasis on Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration

Benefits & Perks

• A remote-first culture - work from home or come into the office, it's totally up to you.
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (FTO) so that you can take the time that you need to re-energise.
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - take two days off per calendar year to volunteer with your preferred charitable organization.
• 5-year Service Milestone Sabbatical.
• Paid parental leave.
• Generous employee referral bonus program.
• Pet insurance.
• HQ Office centrally located in Reston Town Center featuring a well-stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages, and catered lunch on Thursdays.
• Regular virtual company-wide events, including cooking classes, yoga, meditation and more.
• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At ScienceLogic, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which you are applying.

About ScienceLogic

ScienceLogic is a leader in IT Operations Management, providing modern IT operations with actionable insights to predict and resolve problems faster in a digital, ephemeral world. Its solution sees everything across cloud and distributed architectures, contextualizes data through relationship mapping, and acts on this insight through integration and automation. 

www.sciencelogic.com