Staff 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
• B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
• 6-8+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
• Experience developing scalable distributed data processing solutions
• Experience in multi-threaded programming
• Experience in running large scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture
• Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understand performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc)

Desirable

• As a Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, you will actively contribute and lead engineers in the design and development of new distributed data processing capabilities
• Designing and implementing extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data
• Work to improve algorithms built to schedule load on clusters of thousands of machines elastically at runtime
• Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems
• Improve systems to provide performance guarantees to customers in a shared-everything multi-tenant architecture
• Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of our internal message processing technology to petabyte per day scale
• Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker
• Work across Sumo interfacing with multiple teams including Search, Security and Metrics & Tracing to identify requirements and architect solutions to meet their data core ingest needs