Senior Software Engineer I - OpenTelemetry Collection

Senior Software Engineer-I (Open Source Collection)

Location: Bengaluru/Noida

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.
• Good hands-on understanding of Kubernetes and the Ability to quickly diagnose and resolve complex issues in a production environment.
• 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
• 5-8 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

• Contributing to an open-source project and preferably open-source telemetry collection
• 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)

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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