Sumo Logic is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Sumo Logic. The role involves optimizing operations, increasing efficiency, hardening security posture, and increasing feature velocity of Sumo’s products. The SRE will work closely with multiple teams to optimize the operations of their microservices.

Requirements

• Cloud native application development experience leveraging best practices and design patterns
• Strong debugging and trouble-shooting skills across the entire technology stack
• Deep understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services
• Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
• Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
• Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Ability to author production ready code in at least one the following: Java, Scala or Go
• Experience with Linux systems and at home on the command line
• Understand and apply modern approaches to cloud-native software security
• Experienced with agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, and how to operate within these frameworks to continually deliver value
• Flexible and willing to step into new roles and responsibilities
• Willingness to learn and use Sumo Logic products for solving reliability and security issues
• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline
• 4-6 years of industry experience

Responsibilities

• Continually improve the lifecycle of microservices and architectural components from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
• Participate in defining, evolving, and managing SLOs
• Write code and automation to reduce operational workload, increase efficiency, improve security posture, eliminate toil, and enable Sumo’s developers to deliver features more rapidly
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Facilitate blame-free root cause analysis meetings for incidents to learn and drive improvement
• Participate in and continually improve our global IRC (incident response coordination) for all products
• Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the various teams
• Work inside of a fast-paced iterative environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security
• Experienced with planet scale product development
• Running and operating SaaS products on AWS Cloud with expert level proficiency
• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, Kafka Streams, or KSQL
• Expert level experience in one or more of: Java, Go, Scala, or Python
• Expert level experience in one or more of: Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours
• Life and disability insurance
• Bonuses and incentives
• Professional development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Family and parental leave