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, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which 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.

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The expected annual compensation range for this role is $159K - $214k + 10% bonus + equity. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.

Other details

• Health, Dental, Vision- Insurance
• 401k and Life Insurance options
• Unlimited PTO with 15+ days of recognized holidays
• Quarterly Wellness days
• 100% remote with the option to be in the office if you want (Bay Area or Austin)
• 3 months of paid parental leave

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