Location- 100% remote within the United States or Canada

As a Staff Software Engineer - Unified Alerting, you will actively contribute and lead engineers in the design and development of high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable alerting systems to handle our ever-increasing scale. Come join us on our mission to build an intelligent alerting system with the most powerful AIOps capabilities that can evaluate petabytes of logs, metrics, and tracing data in real-time and proactively detect, troubleshoot, root cause and resolve performance and availability issues without any human intervention.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement an alerting system that is extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that can process and manage petabytes of customer data in both real-time streaming and batch form.

• Solve complex challenges in low-latency and zero-data-loss scenarios that require demonstrated expertise in distributed systems, fault-tolerance, and multi-tenancy.

• Build systems to derive actionable insights and intelligence on petabytes of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

• Work collaboratively as a member of a team to deliver identified projects, respond quickly and effectively to business needs, and mentor junior engineers. 

• Analyze and improve the efficiency and reliability of our backend systems.

• Write robust code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests.

• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, and coding standards

Requirements:

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

• 8+ 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

• Understand performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc).

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.

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.

The expected annual base salary range for this position is $185,000 - $210,000 + 10% bonus. 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. 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. 

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, Austin, Denver, NYC)
• 3 months of paid parental leave