Senior Software Engineer, Sumo Logic
Core Platform
$159-214k
+ 10% bonus + Equity
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
Open for applications
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$159-214k
+ 10% bonus + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Sumo Logic's mission is to create the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Sciences or a related discipline (MSc, or PhD is a plus)
- Minimum of 4+ years of experience working on backend and distributed systems
- Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++
- Experience working with one of the public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Expert knowledge in algorithms and performance characteristics of data structures used in distributed systems (maps, lists, queues, etc)
- Experience deploying production level code, with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working on designing, architecting, and implementing highly scalable, distributed, and fault tolerant backend systems
- You will be part of our continuous intelligence platform team and will be working on building systems and frameworks that are used by other teams in the company as well as features used by our actual customers
- We build the systems that power authentication, session management, role-based access control, content management, auditing, health tracking, API, and more
- Apply object oriented and functional programming languages, unix operating systems, networking, and scaling techniques to build next generation systems
- Evaluate requirements, define technical specifications, estimate development costs, review design and communicate to stakeholders
- Lead, organize, and participate in cross-team discussions on system design and architecture
- Develop instrumentation/profiling tools to monitor backend systems
- Mentor junior engineers and improve software development processes
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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% female employees
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2019
$110m
SERIES G
Jun 2017
$71.9m
SERIES F
Total funding: $336.9m
Company benefits
- Vision & Dental Benefits
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We’re in it with our customers - We all play an essential part in providing a critical service that our customers, and we ourselves, depend on, creating an incredibly aligned relationship
- Bring light to dark - We seek to provide transparency internally and externally, because information and context produces better decisions and removes uncertainty
- One single agenda - We celebrate individuals who put the success of the team first, leave their personal agendas at the door, and work with complete integrity with everyone
- Work with heart - We respect each other, assume good intentions, embrace diverse backgrounds and thinking, and believe time with family and friends is vital to our lives and well-being
- Learning culture - We take calculated risks, learn from our mistakes, iterate and do better each time; we believe disciplined, reliable execution is essential to market leadership
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
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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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