Staff Software Engineer, Sumo Logic

$183-248k

SQL

Kubernetes

Python

Scala

Java

Kafka

Postgres

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Golang

DynamoDB

Senior and Expert level

Austin

Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps

Open for applications

Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Open for applications

$183-248k

SQL

Kubernetes

Python

Scala

Java

Kafka

Postgres

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Golang

DynamoDB

Senior and Expert level

Austin

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Company mission

Sumo Logic's mission is to create the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

People leader with the technical chops to drive work forward, mentor those around you, and raise the talent bar for the team. Staff/Lead has implications of leadership and we need that from the start
Experience in backend development with Scala, Java, Golang, or Python. Scala or Java preferred
Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL databases. We also use DynamoDB and others
Experience with Kafka
Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
A desire to see features through from development to deployment in production environments
You believe in small and frequent product releases and deployments
Experience in an on-call rotation and the mindset that you and your team are responsible for the product support for the products you build and deploy

What the job involves

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be working on designing, architecting, and implementing highly scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant backend systems
You will champion integrating observability, scalability, and reliability at every stage of the SDLC
You will work with the team to generate ideas on ways we can evolve our services to meet the needs of the business
You will be part of the Investigation team in our cybersecurity business unit and will be working on building both data processing pipelines and APIs/queries layer to search/aggregate large amounts of data
Evaluate requirements, define technical specifications, review design and communicate to stakeholders
Lead, organize, and participate in cross-team discussions on system design and architecture
Participate in interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring junior engineers
Write scalable systems to store/index large amounts of data and performant queries/aggregations on that data
Participate in an on-call rotation to manage incidents and support the services you have developed
Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the various data infrastructure teams

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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

22% female employees

-7% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

May 2019

$110m

SERIES G

Jun 2017

$74.1m

SERIES F

Total funding: $339.1m

Company benefits

Vision & Dental Benefits
Generous Parental Leave
Unlimited paid time off policy
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

Redwood City, CA

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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