Senior Software Engineer II - Core Ingest

Sumo Logic

14d • $165,000 - $193,000

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer II - Core Ingest, 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 petabytes of data a day, while making exabytes of data available for search and forensic analysis.

Requirements

• B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
• 5+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
• Experience developing scalable distributed data processing solutions
• Experience in multi-threaded programming
• Experience in running large scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture
• Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness and experience with occasional on-call availability. Rotations scheduled approximately every 6-8 weeks for a 12 hour timeline, duration 1 week primary, 1 week to assist primary only if needed, starting 9-11am PDT/MDT/CDT and ending 12 hours later.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.
• Work to improve algorithms built to schedule load on clusters of thousands of machines elastically at runtime.
• Improve systems to provide performance guarantees to customers in a shared-everything multi-tenant architecture.
• Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of our internal message processing technology to petabyte per day scale.
• Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees