Senior Software Engineer II

Senior Software Engineer II - Data Experiences
Location: Bangalore, Hybrid

Sumo Logic is a cloud-native SaaS data analytics platform, solving complex observability and security problems. Customers choose our product because it allows them to easily monitor, optimize and secure their applications, systems and infrastructures.

Our microservices architecture hosted on AWS ingests petabytes of data daily across many geographic regions. Millions of queries a day analyze hundreds of petabytes of data.

The Platform Data Experiences Team is responsible for building scalable, cost-efficient and highly available backend services for Sumo Logic Infrastructure Monitoring solution. You will join a team of engineers responsible for handling products like alerting and other query features for logs, metrics and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Develop features using algorithms that work optimally on very large data sets. These features would run on our backend systems that can handle enormous amounts of customer data, operate with high tolerance for errors, and can scale up as needed. These systems are responsible for managing and processing petabytes of data.

• Act as a team lead in the team.

• Write robust & re-usable code.

• Own a small set of microservices, analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability,
reliability and cost for the same.

• Act as a primary on-call for owned services, responding to service degradations in a timely manner.

• 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.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• B.Tech/ M.Tech/ BSc or MSc in Computer Science or a related discipline.

• 7-9 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership.

• Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++.

• Experience in building backend services for handling data at large scale.

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

• Desire to learn Scala, an up-and-coming JVM language (scala-lang.org).

Desired Qualifications and Skills

• Experience in big data / 24x7 commercial service / planet scale product development.

• Experience in agile software development (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development).

• Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security.

• Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems (desirable).

• Experience leading scrum teams planning and day to day execution

About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

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