Senior Backend Software Engineer, Sumo Logic
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$132-179k
Plus equity
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
Job no longer available
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$132-179k
Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Sumo Logic's mission is to create the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications.
Role
Who you are
- B.Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline
- 5+ 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 multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems
- Write robust code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests
- Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs
- Experience with CICD and On-call production support
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 2,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic, including Pokemon, Canary, and Greenhouse.
Customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.
After its IPO in 2020, February 2023 saw Sumo Logic agree to a $1.7 billion valued acquisition deal from Francisco Partners. This comes after a year that saw its stock drop by 40%. This marks an exciting new chapter for Sumo Logic, its parent company has a track record for acquiring successful tech and software businesses such as MyHeritage and Renaissance Learning. Exemplifying its potential in its new Francisco Partners era, Sumo Logic was named a "Challenger" company in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% female employees
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2019
$110m
SERIES G
Jun 2017
$74.1m
SERIES F
Total funding: $339.1m
Company benefits
- Vision & Dental Benefits
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We’re in it with our customers - We all play an essential part in providing a critical service that our customers, and we ourselves, depend on, creating an incredibly aligned relationship
- Bring light to dark - We seek to provide transparency internally and externally, because information and context produces better decisions and removes uncertainty
- One single agenda - We celebrate individuals who put the success of the team first, leave their personal agendas at the door, and work with complete integrity with everyone
- Work with heart - We respect each other, assume good intentions, embrace diverse backgrounds and thinking, and believe time with family and friends is vital to our lives and well-being
- Learning culture - We take calculated risks, learn from our mistakes, iterate and do better each time; we believe disciplined, reliable execution is essential to market leadership
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
Founders
Christian Beedgen
(CTO)Previously worked for 9 years at ArcSight, holding various positions such as Lead Software Engineer, Software Development Manager and Chief Architect, Director of Engineering
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