Senior Engineer - Distributed Systems- Backend

Back to jobs Senior Engineer - Distributed Systems- Backend Remote, USA Apply Location - Open to 100% remote in United States or Canada As a Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems , you will actively contribute to the design and development of new distributed data processing capabilities. You will be instrumental in helping us solve complex low-latency, distributed systems challenges to handle our ever-increasing scale. Our system is a highly distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant platform that includes bleeding-edge components related to storage, messaging, search, and analytics. This system ingests and analyzes hundreds of terabytes of data a day, while making petabytes of data available for search and forensic analysis. What you’ll be working on: 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. 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. Your experience and skills include: B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus) 4-7 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 Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala) Excellent verbal and written communication skills Desirable skills: Experience in big data and/or 24x7 commercial service is highly desirable. You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X). Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development) is a plus. 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 . Sumo Logic Privacy Policy . Sumo Logic will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection. The expected annual compensation range for this role is $155k - $180k + 10% bonus + equity. 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. 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