Software Engineer, Sumo Logic

• 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

• 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!