Senior Software Engineer - Tooling & Automation

Role description

Role Overview

The ideal candidate will serve as the technical owner connecting our engineering alerting to Vultr's new Global Integrated Operations Command Center (GIOC) in Chennai, India, and build the consolidated single-pane dashboard GIOC will operate from.

What You Will Do

Map every alert source owned by Systems, Network, and Security engineering, build and maintain the routing/forwarding layer, own the on-call/notification wiring, design and build a unified operational dashboard, define dashboard v1 scope jointly with GIOC and pillar leads, and ship it on a committed milestone.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is a highly visible, focused role requiring deep familiarity with Vultr's current architecture, monitoring stack, and operational workflows.

Requirements

• 5–8 years in Tools/Platform Engineering or a similar infrastructure role
• 3–5 years hands-on with monitoring/alerting tooling (Icinga or equivalent NMS, Grafana, and at least one SIEM platform — Splunk, QRadar, or Sentinel)
• 3+ years building integrations against APIs/webhooks, with scripting ability (Python or similar)
• 2–3 years building or substantially modifying operational dashboards (Grafana, Kibana, Power BI, or similar)
• Understanding of ticketing/ITSM workflow tools (Jira, Confluence, Mattermost) and how alert priority/severity maps into ticket fields

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription