Senior Software Engineer I

Senior Software Engineer I at Sumo Logic (View all jobs)

Redwood City, CA

What you will be doing:

• Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.

• Write robust code and demonstrate robustness through automated testing. Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs.

• Assist with performance measurements, testing, documentation, and resolution of escalated customer issues.

• Maintain and improve the usability, efficiency, scalability, and reliability of data ingestion systems including: 1) the software deployed on the client machines which collects and sends logs and metrics data to the backend services; 2) microservices which are responsible to receive and process logs and metrics data; 3) microservices which are responsible to fetch data from third party SaaS services like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.; 4) backends which allow users to make data ingestion configuration; 5) open source solutions that collect data from Kubernetes and standalone environments.

• Telecommuting is permitted.

What we need from you

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related IT field and five (5) years of post-baccalaureate, progressive experience as a Software Engineer or in a related role. In lieu of a bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience, will accept a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related IT field and three (3) years of experience as a Software Engineer or in a related role.

• Work experience with:

• Algorithm development and implementation;

• Implementing client/server systems for huge data throughput with high performance, scalability and reliability requirements;

• Distributed systems and networking;

• Cloud architecture such as AWS, GCP, or Azure;

• Object-oriented design and development;

• Databases including SQL and No-SQL;

• Software performance optimization techniques;

• Linux as development environments;

• Programming languages: Go, Python;

• Container technologies: Docker and Kubernetes; and,

• Open Source Observability Tools: Prometheus, Open Telemetry.

The salary range for this position is $215,500 to $225,000 per year.

About Sumo:

We are a cloud-native SaaS machine data analytics platform - logs, time series metrics, and security analytics. We were founded in 2010 by experts in log management, big data, security systems, and enterprise-scale applications. Customers love our product because it allows them to easily monitor and optimize their mission-critical, large scale applications.

Our Customers:

We serve DevOps, SecOps and ITOps teams. Customers love our product because it allows them to easily monitor and optimize their mission-critical, large scale applications.

Mission:

Democratize machine data analytics through our platform, bringing real-time data insights securely through the cloud.

Massive Scale:

Our microservices architecture in AWS ingests hundreds of terabytes daily across many geographic regions. Millions of queries a day analyze hundreds of petabytes of data.

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