Remote Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer-II, DevOps and Tooling, where you will develop and sustain automated tooling for release processes, contribute to establishing delivery pipelines, and empower autonomous teams to create independently deployable services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science or another scientific or technical discipline
• Ability to influence: Understand people’s values and motivations and influence them towards making good architectural choices
• Collaborative working style: You can work with other engineers to come up with good decisions
• Bias towards action: You need to make things happen. It is essential you don’t become an inhibitor of progress, but an enabler
• Flexibility: You are willing to learn and change. Admit past approaches might not be the right ones now
• 6+ years of experience in the design, development, and use of release automation tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins etc
• 3+ years of experience delivering enterprise-class JavaScript web applications with knowledge of component-based architectures, preferably with React and Redux
• 3+ years of experience in software development in Java/Scala/Golang or similar
• Excellent understanding of both frontend and backend development, including build processes, with hands-on experience using tools like make/npm/gradle
• Proficient with the JavaScript ecosystem, including technologies like Node.js, Cypress, Jest, Playwright, Webpack, Vite, and Turborepo
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/GCP
• Skilled in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Groovy/Python/Bash
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
• Good understanding of GitOps and ArgoCD concepts and workflows
• Knowledgeable in the security and compliance aspects of DevSecOps

Responsibilities

• Own the Delivery pipeline and release automation framework for all Sumo services
• Educate and collaborate with teams during both design and development phases to ensure best practices
• Mentor a team of Engineers (Junior to Senior) and improve software development processes
• Evaluate, test, and provide technology and design recommendations to executives
• Write detailed design documents and documentation on system design and implementation
• Ensuring the engineering teams are set up to deliver quality software quickly and reliably
• Enhance and maintain infrastructure and tooling for development, testing and debugging