Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems | Sumo Logic | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Location</strong>– Open to 100% remote in United States or Canada</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a <strong class=" font-semibold">Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems</strong>, 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll be working on:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Designing and implementing extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work to improve algorithms built to schedule load on clusters of thousands of machines elastically at runtime.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Improve systems to provide performance guarantees to customers in a shared-everything multi-tenant architecture.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of our internal message processing technology to petabyte per day scale.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Your experience and skills include:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">4-7 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience developing scalable distributed data processing solutions</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in multi-threaded programming</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in running large scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent verbal and written communication skills</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Desirable skills:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in big data and/or 24×7 commercial service is highly desirable.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development) is a plus.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About Us</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="http://www.sumologic.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">www.sumologic.com</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://www.sumologic.com/privacy-statement/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Sumo Logic Privacy Policy</a>. Sumo Logic will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The expected annual compensation range for this role is <strong class=" font-semibold">$155k – $180k + 10% bonus + equity.</strong> 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. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Other details</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Health, Dental, Vision- Insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k and Life Insurance options</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Unlimited PTO with 15+ days of recognized holidays</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Quarterly Wellness days</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">100% remote with the option to be in the office if you want (Bay Area, Austin, Denver, NYC)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">3 months of paid parental leave</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#LI-DNI</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a <strong class=" font-semibold">Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems</strong>, 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll be working on:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Designing and implementing extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work to improve algorithms built to schedule load on clusters of thousands of machines elastically at runtime.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Improve systems to provide performance guarantees to customers in a shared-everything multi-tenant architecture.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of our internal message processing technology to petabyte per day scale.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Your experience and skills include:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">4-7 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience developing scalable distributed data processing solutions</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in multi-threaded programming</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in running large scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent verbal and written communication skills</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Desirable skills:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in big data and/or 24×7 commercial service is highly desirable.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development) is a plus.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About Us</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="http://www.sumologic.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">www.sumologic.com</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://www.sumologic.com/privacy-statement/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Sumo Logic Privacy Policy</a>. Sumo Logic will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The expected annual compensation range for this role is <strong class=" font-semibold">$155k – $180k + 10% bonus + equity.</strong> 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. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Other details</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Health, Dental, Vision- Insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k and Life Insurance options</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Unlimited PTO with 15+ days of recognized holidays</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Quarterly Wellness days</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">100% remote with the option to be in the office if you want (Bay Area, Austin, Denver, NYC)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">3 months of paid parental leave</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#LI-DNI</p>