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Staff Engineer, Backend

Sumo LogicRedwood City, California, United States | Open ToRemote, Onsite
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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.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 You Will Be Doing:

  • 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.

About Us:


Sumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications.

For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.The expected annual base salary range for this position is $200-220K base + 15% bonus + equity (PIU's). Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. Sumo Logic Privacy Policy

Other details


  • Health, Dental, Vision- Insurance
  • 401k and Life Insurance options
  • Unlimited PTO with 15+ days of recognized holidays
  • Quarterly Wellness days
  • 100% remote with the option to be in the office if you want (Bay Area, Austin, Denver, NYC)
  • 3 months of paid parental leave

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Life at Sumo Logic

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 1,600 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic for the analytics and insights to build, run and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. With Sumo Logic, customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth. For more information or to sign up for your free trial, visit www.sumologic.com. And check out our community and join the conversation! community.sumologic.com and devops.sumologic.com
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Collaborative Environment2. Continuous Learning and Improvement3. Customer-Centric Approach4. Innovation and Creativity5. Passion for Security and Compliance6. Emphasis on Technical Expertise7. Focus on Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence8. Strong Communication Skills9. Empowers people who power modern, digital business10. Cloudnative SaaS data analytics platform
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