Senior Software Engineer II - Open Telemetry Projects

Sumo Logic; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join their Open Telemetry team. This role involves designing and implementing robust features for a cutting-edge data collection engine, contributing to open source projects, and enhancing system performance. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in GoLang or similar languages, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for collaborative development. This position offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies in a dynamic environment, making a significant impact on the future of observability and data analytics.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience with ownership.
• Strong communication skills and team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for an OpenTelemetry collection engine.
• Contribute to the upstream OpenTelemetry project.

Skills

GoLang

Java

Scala

C++

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Data Structures

Multi-threaded Programming

Agile Development

Education

B.Tech in Computer Science

M.Tech in Computer Science

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Senior Software Engineer II, Open Telemetry/ Open source contributions

Our team:

At Sumo Logic, we ingest petabytes of data every day and empower our customers by providing them with extremely reliable and fast tools to derive meaningful insights from their data. The Open Source/Open Telemetry Collector team provides the next-generation data collector built on Open Telemetry to simplify and streamline the performance and behavior monitoring of complex distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement features for an extremely robust and lean OpenTelemetry collection engine
• Write robust code with unit and integration tests
• Contribute to the upstream OpenTelemetry project
• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Work as a team member, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs
• Experience with CI and on-call production support

Requirements

• B.Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline
• 6+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership
• Experience with GoLang or other statically typed language (Java, Scala, C++). Willingness to learn GoLang if you don't have the experience.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment
• Understand the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, solve problems and adapt to new technologies

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the monitoring/observability space
• Working experience with GitHub actions or other CI pipelines
• A GitHub account with recent activity and contributions to open source projects
• Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly desirable.
• Comfortable working with Unix type operating systems (Linux, OS X)
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform etc.
• Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development)
• Contributing to an Open source project and preferably open source telemetry collection

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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