Staff Backend Engineer, Sumo Logic
$200-220k
+ 15% Bonus + Equity
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
Job no longer available
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$200-220k
+ 15% Bonus + Equity
Office located in Redwood City, CA
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
- You're a people leader with the technical chops to drive work forward, mentor those around you, and raise the talent bar for the team. Staff/Lead has implications of leadership and we need that from the start
- You have experience in backend development with Scala, Java, Golang, or Python. Scala or Java preferred
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL databases. We also use DynamoDB and others
- Kafka or would be great
- Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
- A desire to see features through from development to deployment in production environments
- You believe in small and frequent product releases and deployments
- Experience in an on-call rotation and the mindset that you and your team are responsible for the product support for the products you build and deploy
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer, you will be working on designing, architecting, and implementing highly scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant backend systems
- You will champion integrating observability, scalability, and reliability at every stage of the SDLC. You will work with the team to generate ideas on ways we can evolve our services to meet the needs of the business
- You will be part of the Investigation team in our cybersecurity business unit and will be working on building both data processing pipelines and APIs/queries layer to search/aggregate large amounts of data
- Evaluate requirements, define technical specifications, review design and communicate to stakeholders
- Lead, organize, and participate in cross-team discussions on system design and architecture
- Participate in interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring junior engineers
- Write scalable systems to store/index large amounts of data and performant queries/aggregations on that data
- Participate in an on-call rotation to manage incidents and support the services you have developed
- Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the various data infrastructure teams
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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