Software Engineer - I

Software Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities
• 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.
• Own a small set of microservices, analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, reliability and cost for the same.
• Work as a member of a cross-geo team, 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

Requirements
• B.Tech in Computer Science or related discipline
• 1+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership
• Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C
• Understand 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).

Desirable:
• Experience in big data / 24x7 commercial service / planet scale product development
• Experience in agile software development (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development)
• Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security
• Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly desirable.

About Us:

Sumologic, headquartered in Redwood City, California, has both in-office and remote locations worldwide. In India, the company operates entirely remotely, enabling them to hire top talent across the country. Despite being remote, Sumologic values building a close-knit team and organizes regular team meet-ups to foster a strong synergy among its employees.

The company also emphasizes its strong learning culture, which supports its engineers in delivering top-notch products with cutting-edge technology while also upskilling them and helping them achieve their career goals.

What we do:

We are a cloud-native SaaS machine data analytics platform, solving complex monitoring problems for DevOps, SecOps and ITOps teams. Customers love our product because it allows them to easily monitor and optimize their mission critical, large scale applications.

Massive Scale:

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.

Mission:

SumoLogic empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Through its SaaS analytics platform, Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications. You will be working remotely with occasional team meetups. To apply, please submit your resume, no cover letter necessary. We encourage you to submit any work you have done in the open. (Open source contributions, GitHub repos, etc