Staff Software Engineer, Sumo Logic

• B.Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline
• 8+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership
• Object-oriented experience, for example, in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++
• Understand the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc)
• Experience in building backend services for handling data at a large scale
• Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers
• Comfortable working with a remote team operating in multiple time zones

Desirable

• As a Staff backend engineer on the Data Query team, you will build a scalable, reliable, and performant analytics platform for observability and security products, enabling customers to rapidly perform high-quality, real-time analyses of events and incidents
• The Data Query team manages the engine for querying exabytes of logs data, millions of metrics data points, and terabytes of tracing data every day
• Your core responsibilities include designing and implementing highly performant code to minimize CPU and memory overhead, directly impacting our platform’s operational costs and performance
• Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data
• Resource Efficiency: Optimize code to reduce latency and resource footprint in a microservices environment
• Write robust code: demonstrate its robustness through automated tests
• Cost Tracking: Implement telemetry and logging to help the PM team track granular cost-per-service metrics
• Operational Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations and help troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in production
• Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs