Senior Software Engineer II - Metrics and Tracing

Senior Software Engineer II - Metrics Platform

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 Metrics Platform 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 ingest, query and storage components of a distributed time series database engine.

What you will do:

• 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.
• Follow test driven development.
• Write robust & re-usable code, demonstrate its robustness through automated tests.
• Own a small set of microservices, analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability,

reliability and cost for the same.

• Helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs.
• Act as a primary on-call for owned services, responding to service degradations in a timely manner.

What you will have:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 7-8 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership.
• Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++.
• 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).
• Experience in multi-threaded programming
• Experience in running large scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture

Desirable skills:

• 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.