Senior Software Engineer

ScienceLogic•Reston, VA

About The Position

In a world of constant change, we're leading the charge towards truly autonomous enterprises. Our cutting-edge platform harnesses the power of automation and generative AI to revolutionize how businesses manage and optimize their IT operations. We're not just adapting to digital transformation—we're accelerating it. Our solutions bring business and operations leaders together, unlocking new levels of innovation, efficiency, and scalability. We empower organizations to deliver superior customer experiences and drive revenue growth in an always-on, always-mobile world. At ScienceLogic, we're building the foundation for Autonomic IT—a future where IT operations are self-healing, self-optimizing, and aligned perfectly with business objectives. Our team of visionaries is reshaping the $18+ billion IT operations market, creating cost-optimized, efficient, and next-level capabilities for enterprises worldwide. ScienceLogic is looking for a senior software engineer who will be responsible for leading development efforts to ensure the highest quality and performance standards when working on development enablement. This role requires hands-on technical expertise, solid architectural intuition, strategic planning abilities, software development skills, a commitment to software quality processes, and a strong collaborative approach. Working closely with development team members, product management, and QA resources, you will develop and maintain enablement tools including our plugin (PowerPack) import/export tools, data collection framework, and other related tools. This helps internal teams, partners and customers ensure that developer efforts meet all quality, functionality, and performance requirements by default.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.
5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 2 years providing technical leadership and architectural guidance.
Proven expertise in research, planning, development, testing, and CI/CD, with a strong understanding of agile methodologies, tools, and processes.
Experience with unit test tools (e.g., pytest, nose, tox, etc)
Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (e.g., Github Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) including ability to improve/add automations
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate across teams.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
Ability to understand the purpose of a given feature and use that to create test plans
Ability to communicate with the team effectively, understanding the work that’s happening, and the goals being pursued, providing feedback in the planning, implementation, and maintenance stages.
Ability to produce high-quality python code and the ability to work as needed in javascript and PHP.
Skill using and creating python, REST and GraphQL APIs
Understanding and ability to use databases (SQL), and virtualization.
Fluent in use of the Linux command line with the ability to navigate, write scripts, view logs and perform advanced Linux shell scripting. A working knowledge of build tools.
Ability to use and mentor other using docker, docker-compose, and other containerization technologies
Quality and maintainability mindset
An orientation toward learning, problem solving, and collaboration

Responsibilities

Building software components and APIs that enable developers on the SkylarOne platform.
Enabling engineers across the world to rapidly build monitoring solutions via our SDK consisting of our collection framework, user interface tools, import/export tooling, REST APIs, python APIs, and other similar systems.
Working in a collaborative and agile environment that is geared towards Continuous Delivery.
Writing and maintaining automated unit, feature, integration, and system tests.
Creating libraries to simplify collection, manipulation, pruning, trending, and analysis of data.
Participating in the ScienceLogic developer community by answering questions, helping with designs, contributing to our open-source packages and participating in discussions.
Working on a Scrum team with a Product Owner to manage the backlog and implement the roadmap.
Actively contributing to code reviews, supporting best-practices, and mentoring other engineers.
Providing technical leadership and architectural guidance to the team.
Actively working to ensure that the software we produce can scale well
Using AI tools in your daily work to work quickly and helping others use it effectively to improve the speed and/or quality of output
Collaborating across the product and engineering organizations including work on SkylarAI, our flagship AI product suite

Benefits

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-energize.
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!