Senior Backend Engineer, Sumo Logic

• B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
• 4-7 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

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, 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
• This system ingests and analyzes hundreds of terabytes of data a day, while making petabytes of data available for search and forensic analysis
• 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