Senior Staff Frontend Engineer

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Frontend Engineer to provide technical leadership at a platform and org-wide level for our Marketplace experience. This role goes beyond owning a single team’s frontend — you will shape frontend architecture, standards, and long-term technical direction for Marketplace initiatives that support internal SKUs today and third-party integrations in the future.

This is a hands-on, high-impact IC role with broad influence. You’ll work across Marketplace, Platform, Backend, Product, and Design teams to ensure we build scalable, high-performance, and reliable user experiences that support business growth and long-term extensibility.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve the frontend architecture for the Marketplace platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Lead complex frontend initiatives that span multiple teams and services (catalog, checkout, integrations, admin tooling).
• Define and drive frontend engineering standards across Marketplace (architecture patterns, performance, accessibility, testing).
• Partner closely with Backend and Platform teams on API design, contracts, and system boundaries.
• Act as a technical advisor to Product and Design, helping shape solutions early and balancing user experience with engineering trade-offs.
• Mentor and guide Staff and Senior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
• Identify systemic frontend bottlenecks and proactively drive improvements that increase team velocity and platform reliability.
• Represent frontend concerns in cross-org technical discussions and influence decisions beyond Marketplace.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of professional frontend engineering experience in product-focused environments.
• Deep expertise in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks such as React (or equivalent).
• Proven experience owning large-scale frontend architectures across multiple teams or domains.
• Strong background in building shared component libraries, design systems, or platform-level frontend tooling.
• Hands-on experience with frontend performance optimization (e.g., Web Vitals, bundle optimization, rendering strategies).
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and setting direction where none exists.

Nice to Have

• Experience with marketplace, e-commerce, or transactional platforms.
• Exposure to microfrontend architectures and frontend platformization.
• Familiarity with cloud-native backends and distributed systems.
• Experience working in observability, DevOps, or platform engineering ecosystems.
• Prior experience acting as a cross-team technical leader at scale.

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice