Staff Engineer - Kubernetes Platform

Location- Austin TX or open to 100% remote #LI-Remote

Develop and operate our planet-scale Kubernetes Platform for running Sumo Logic’s microservices to power our Observability and Security products across the world.  Provide consistent and seamless interfaces that enable our microservices to leverage key Kubernetes and underlying cloud features.  Allow microservices to run securely and efficiently without interruption.  Make your customers (Sumo’s developers) happy! 

• Develop the strategy, tools, libraries, and workflow for evolving our internal Kubernetes Solution to maximize benefits for Sumo’s developers and product teams.
• Facilitate internal adoption of our Kubernetes platform to realize optimized autoscaling, cost efficiency, automated problem remediation, and modern continuous deployment patterns.
• Work with your team to establish service level objectives and monitor to ensure the objectives are met or exceeded.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to manage incidents and support the services you have developed
• Drive root cause identification and issue resolution and continually improve operational posture
• Work inside of a fast-paced iterative environment.

• Cloud native application development and operations leveraging Kubernetes at scale.
• Operating (monitoring, alerting) workloads 
• Deep understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services.
• Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
• Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
• Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.
• Coding fluency in at least Java, Scala or GoLang - and ability to author production ready code.
• Experience with Linux systems
• Understand and apply modern approaches to cloud-native software security
• Experienced with agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, and how to operate within these frameworks to continually deliver value.
• Flexible and willing to step into new roles and responsibilities
• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline
• 8+ years of industry experience.

• Experienced with planet scale product development
• Running SaaS products on AWS Cloud 
• Expert level Kubernetes / AWS EKS proficiency
• Enthusiastic about cutting-edge technologies and fresh challenges that come with them
• Experience writing customer operators and CRDs for Kubernetes
• Expert level experience running and tuning JVM workloads at scale
• Expert proficiency in one or more of: Golang, Scala, and Python

Other Details:

• Competitive base salary + bonus + RSU's
• Unlimited PTO + 12 company holidays + 4 quarterly wellness days
• 100% remote or in office- your choice
• Employee stock purchase plan- ESPP
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Paid Parental leave