SolarWindsEngineering Manager
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!
We work in a hybrid mode 3+2, with a minimum of 3 days at the office (with mandatory Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and a maximum of 2 days at the home office.
The location of our office is Holandská 873/6, Brno – Štýřice, 639 00.
We employ only via an employment contract – full-time employment (HPP).
About the Team & the Role
Our Network & Infrastructure Observability (NIO) domain is a core part of SolarWinds Observability (SWO)—a modern, cloud-native platform that helps customers understand and operate complex hybrid IT environments.
NIO focuses on how customers monitor and manage their networks and infrastructure in the cloud, including areas like network performance, topology, collectors, SD-WAN, IPAM, discovery, configuration, and API-based monitoring.
SWO is a modern cloud platform built with technologies like .NET and React, focused on building new capabilities rather than maintaining legacy systems.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one or more Scrum teams of software engineers in this domain. You will collaborate closely with two other Engineering Managers in Brno and jointly contribute to leading 10 Scrum teams within NIO.
This role combines people leadership and technical understanding, with a focus on building strong teams, delivering customer value, and ensuring smooth execution. You will work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, UX, SRE, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality cloud services used by thousands of customers worldwide.
What You’ll Do
Lead people and teams
- Lead one or more Scrum teams of software engineers.
- Collaborate with other Engineering Managers in Brno to align direction across 10 teams.
- Create an environment of trust, psychological safety, and accountability.
- Hire, onboard, and develop engineers, including senior engineers and tech leads.
- Support career growth, provide regular feedback, and drive performance management.
- Foster a positive, proactive, and collaborative team culture.
Delivery & execution
- Ensure your teams deliver reliably and predictably in an agile environment.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to translate priorities into execution.
- Help teams balance feature delivery, technical debt, and operational work.
- Remove blockers, improve processes, and increase team effectiveness.
- Support resolution of escalations and critical issues when needed.
Product delivery & customer impact
- Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to define and execute roadmaps aligned with customer needs and business goals.
- Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable cloud services.
- Balance feature delivery, technical debt, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with Support, Customer Success, and Sales on escalations and critical customer issues.
- Drive improvements in usability, performance, and overall customer experience.
AI-driven engineering & innovation
- Promote the use of AI as a daily engineering tool (e.g., GitHub Copilot and similar technologies).
- Encourage teams to leverage AI to improve productivity, code quality, and development workflows.
- Collaborate on building AI-powered product capabilities within observability.
- Foster an AI-first mindset across teams and continuously explore new opportunities.
What You Bring
Core qualifications
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (or similar leadership role) in a product engineering environment.
- Strong ability to lead, motivate, and grow engineering teams.
- Experience with SW development
- Experience working in agile environments with Scrum teams.
- Strong customer focus and understanding of production systems.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, UX, SRE, and other stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills and ability to align people around shared goals.
Language requirement
- Fluent in Czech or Slovak and English (both written and spoken).
Mindset & leadership style
- Proactive, energetic, and positive approach to leadership.
- Ownership mindset with strong execution focus.
- Ability to create clarity in complex environments.
- Empathy toward both customers and team members.
Nice to have
- Previous background in software engineering as a Senior Software Engineer or Tech Lead
- Experience with cloud products or SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with observability or monitoring tools.
- Interest in or experience with AI tools in software development.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to lead teams building a modern, cloud-native product.
- Focus on new development, not legacy maintenance.
- Strong collaboration across engineering, product, UX, and SRE.
- A culture focused on growth, impact, and innovation.
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
- A vibrant engineering community in Brno within a global company.
Our benefits:
- 25 days of vacation per year
- 3 sick days per year
- 10 study days per year
- 2 volunteering days per year
- 4 weeks’ holidays after 5-year tenure, Sabbatical Leave
- Up to 48 300CZK personal education budget per year
- Pension or life insurance matching donation up to 3% of the salary or 4000 CZK per month
- Cash allowance for meals of 95 CZK per working day
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- English/Czech classes
- Multisport card
- Solarian Referral Program
- SolarWinds Appreciation Program
- Giving – Donation Matching
- Employee Assistance
- Competitive Race Reimbursement
- Breakfast on Wednesdays
- Fresh fruits and snacks on Mondays
- On-site gym
- Twice-weekly workout classes at the office
- Once a week yoga sessions at the office
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