Senior Software Engineer - Tooling & Automation Job Columbus Ohio USA,IT/Tech

Who We Are

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation.

Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.

Vultr Cares

100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
Commitment matters to Vultr! 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

Join Vultr

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to serve as the technical owner connecting our engineering alerting to Vultr's new Global Integrated Operations Command Center (GIOC) in Chennai, India, and to build the consolidated single-pane dashboard GIOC will operate from. The ideal candidate looks at five disconnected monitoring consoles and a dozen siloed alert feeds, winces, and then methodically builds the one dashboard that replaces all of them.

This is a highly visible, focused role requiring deep familiarity with Vultr's current architecture, monitoring stack, and operational workflows. This is your opportunity to build the operational backbone GIOC runs on from day one.

Key Responsibilities

Map every alert source owned by Systems, Network, and Security engineering (Icinga, Grafana, SIEM/Splunk/QRadar/Sentinel, BMC/IPMI, provider-native consoles) and identify the cleanest integration point for each - webhook, syslog forward, API poll, or native connector
Build and maintain the routing/forwarding layer that pushes agreed top-priority alerts from each pillar into GIOC's ticketing and paging tools, with priority/severity preserved and enough context for L1 triage without direct console access
Work with each pillar's engineering SMEs to validate that routing logic matches each pillar's defined resolve-vs-escalate boundary
Own the on-call/notification wiring so critical alerts reach GIOC within agreed acknowledgment SLAs, with no manual relay step
Design and build a unified operational dashboard spanning all five datacenter/provider platforms (Airtel, Nextra, Equinix, QTS, Core Site), replacing today's tool-hopping model
Define dashboard v1 scope jointly with GIOC and pillar leads and ship it on a committed milestone
Run legacy tools and the new dashboard in parallel during transition so GIOC never loses visibility mid-cutover
Build in SLA/health visualizations (ack time, escalation accuracy, open-alert aging) that GIOC leadership can use directly in status reporting
Build correlation engines and integrate all sources of telemetry from various product teams
Document the routing architecture and dashboard so both can be maintained by GIOC or the Tools team after this assignment ends

Qualifications

5-8 years in Tools/Platform Engineering or a similar infrastructure role, including 3-5 years hands-on with monitoring/alerting tooling (Icinga or equivalent NMS, Grafana, and at least one SIEM platform - Splunk, QRadar, or…