Senior Software Engineer I - Platform

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.

What you will be doing:

• 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.

What we need from you:

• 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.

About Us

Sumo Logic is the pioneer in continuous intelligence, a new category of software, which enables organizations of all sizes to address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ automates the collection, ingestion, and analysis of application, infrastructure, security, and IoT data to derive actionable insights within seconds. More than 2,100 customers rely on Sumo Logic to build, run, and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. Only Sumo Logic delivers its platform as a true, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, across multiple use-cases, enabling businesses to thrive in the Intelligence Economy.