Senior Software Engineer, Sumo Logic

$165-193k

Docker

Kubernetes

Scala

Java

Kafka

Linux

Unix

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps

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Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Be an early applicant

$165-193k

Docker

Kubernetes

Scala

Java

Kafka

Linux

Unix

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

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

B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
5+ 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
Willingness and experience with occasional on-call availability. Rotations scheduled approximately every 6-8 weeks for a 12 hour timeline, duration 1 week primary, 1 week to assist primary only if needed, starting 9-11am PDT/MDT/CDT and ending 12 hours later

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

As a Senior Software Engineer - Core Ingest, you will actively contribute to the design and development of new distributed data processing capabilities
You will be instrumental in helping us solve complex low-latency, distributed systems challenges to handle our ever-increasing scale
Our system is a highly distributed, fault tolerant, multi-tenant platform that includes bleeding edge components related to storage, messaging, search, and analytics
You'll be 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
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

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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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

$79.2m

SERIES F

Total funding: $344.2m

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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