Sumo Logic is a computer software company that is striving to empower digital businesses to “help steer the future of predictive analytics.” As an employer, the company fosters
Staff Software Engineer – Core Ingest
Location
United States
Posted
38 days ago
Salary
$191K - $224K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer – Core Ingest
Sumo Logic
• 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. • Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems • 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.
Job Requirements
- B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
- 6-8+ 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
- Experience in Apache Kafka
- Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understand performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc).
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