Software Engineer, Sumo Logic
Data Collection
$112-151k
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
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Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$112-151k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Sumo Logic's mission is to create the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications.
Role
Who you are
- You are a strong software engineer who is passionate about large-scale systems
- You care about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested code; you do this as a member of a team, helping the group come up with a better solution than you would as individuals
- Ideally, you have experience with performance, scalability, and reliability issues of 24x7 commercial services
- BTech., B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Sciences or related discipline
- 2+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery if you only have a B.S. degree
- Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, or C++
- Understand performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc)
- Desire to learn Scala, an up-and-coming JVM language (scala-lang.org)
Desirable
- Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly desirable
- Experience in big data and/or 24x7 commercial service is highly desirable
- You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X)
- Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development) is a plus
What the job involves
- The proliferation of machine log data has the potential to give organizations unprecedented real-time visibility into their infrastructure and operations. With this opportunity comes tremendous technical challenges around ingesting, managing, and understanding high-volume streams of heterogeneous data
- The Data Collection team owns the ingestion pipeline -- starting with a lightweight agent to collect, compress, encrypt, and ship the data back to the Sumo Logic cloud
- As a Backend Software Engineer on the Data Collection team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing advanced mechanisms to collect massive amounts of machine-generated data from heterogeneous systems in real time
- You will build asynchronous systems with high levels of concurrency, multithreading, and parallel programming
- The Data Collection team is responsible for managing the data collection infrastructure and collection agents. Individual agents collect at rates of tens of thousand events per second
- Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems
- Write robust code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests
- Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs
- Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes and Docker!
Our take
Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 2,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic, including Pokemon, Canary, and Greenhouse.
Customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.
After its IPO in 2020, February 2023 saw Sumo Logic agree to a $1.7 billion valued acquisition deal from Francisco Partners. This comes after a year that saw its stock drop by 40%. This marks an exciting new chapter for Sumo Logic, its parent company has a track record for acquiring successful tech and software businesses such as MyHeritage and Renaissance Learning. Exemplifying its potential in its new Francisco Partners era, Sumo Logic was named a "Challenger" company in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% female employees
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2019
$110m
SERIES G
Jun 2017
$70.4m
SERIES F
Total funding: $335.4m
Company benefits
- Vision & Dental Benefits
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We’re in it with our customers - We all play an essential part in providing a critical service that our customers, and we ourselves, depend on, creating an incredibly aligned relationship
- Bring light to dark - We seek to provide transparency internally and externally, because information and context produces better decisions and removes uncertainty
- One single agenda - We celebrate individuals who put the success of the team first, leave their personal agendas at the door, and work with complete integrity with everyone
- Work with heart - We respect each other, assume good intentions, embrace diverse backgrounds and thinking, and believe time with family and friends is vital to our lives and well-being
- Learning culture - We take calculated risks, learn from our mistakes, iterate and do better each time; we believe disciplined, reliable execution is essential to market leadership
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Christian Beedgen
(CTO)Previously worked for 9 years at ArcSight, holding various positions such as Lead Software Engineer, Software Development Manager and Chief Architect, Director of Engineering
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