Senior Engineer - Distributed Systems- Backend

Sumo Logic; United States; Remote; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems. In this role, you'll design and develop cutting-edge data processing capabilities that handle vast amounts of data with low latency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges and improve performance guarantees in a multi-tenant architecture. With a focus on innovation, you'll utilize the latest technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker to manage exabytes of data. This position offers the flexibility of 100% remote work, competitive compensation, and a range of benefits to support your well-being and work-life balance.

Benefits

401k and Life Insurance options

Unlimited PTO with 15+ days of recognized holidays

Quarterly Wellness days

3 months of paid parental leave

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Java or Scala and multi-threaded programming.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend systems for processing petabytes of data.
• Lead re-architecting of internal message processing technology.

Skills

Multi-threaded programming

Distributed systems

Object-oriented programming (Java, Scala)

Agile software development

Big data

Communication skills

Education

B.S. in Computer Sciences

M.S. in Computer Sciences

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Unix (Linux, OS X)

Job description

United States

Location - Open to 100% remote in United States or Canada

As a Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, you will actively contribute to the design and development of new distributed data processing capabilities. You will be instrumental in helping us solve complex low-latency, distributed systems challenges to handle our ever-increasing scale. Our system is a highly distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant platform that includes bleeding-edge components related to storage, messaging, search, and analytics. This system ingests and analyzes hundreds of terabytes of data a day, while making petabytes of data available for search and forensic analysis.

What you’ll be working on:

1. Designing and implementing extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.
2. Work to improve algorithms built to schedule load on clusters of thousands of machines elastically at runtime.
3. Improve systems to provide performance guarantees to customers in a shared-everything multi-tenant architecture.
4. Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of our internal message processing technology to petabyte per day scale.
5. Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker.
6. Work across Sumo interfacing with multiple teams including Search, Security, and Metrics & Tracing to identify requirements and architect solutions to meet their data core ingest needs.

Your experience and skills include:

1. B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
2. 4-7 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
3. Experience in multi-threaded programming
4. Experience in running large scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture
5. Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
7. Experience in big data and/or 24x7 commercial service is highly desirable.
8. You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X).
9. 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 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.

The expected annual compensation range for this role is $155k - $180k + 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.

Must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire and for the duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer nonimmigrant visa sponsorship for this position.

Benefits:

• 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

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