Senior Software Engineer - I - Logs Backend

As a backend engineer in the logs platform team, you will be responsible to help create a scalable, reliable and performant log analytics platform for observability and security products to empower our customers to rapidly create high-quality analyses that enable them to react in real time to events and incidents. The logs ingest and query platform teams work on making the ingestion and query pipelines increasingly performant, scalable to handle multiple PBs of data scale and highly available. 

Responsibilities

• Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.
• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Write robust code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests.
• Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs.  

Requirements

• Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline
• 4+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership 
• Experience in building backend services for handling data at large scale.
• Understand the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc).

Desirable:

• Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly 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.
• Enjoy working in an environment where stuffed squirrels and rubber bands are occasionally hurled at you.

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About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc., empowers the people who power modern, digital business.  Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its SaaS analytics platform. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.