Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer II role sits in a cloud-native security automation context (Cloud SOAR), an area where SaaS products are expected to be both highly reliable and deeply integrated into customers’ operational toolchains. Work on high-performance, scalable services in this domain tends to intersect with multi-tenant design, observability, and incident-driven workflows—core concerns for modern SaaS platforms serving enterprise security teams.
From a SaaS career perspective, the remit emphasizes building and shipping backend capabilities in collaboration with product and cross-functional partners, which is where many engineers develop strong “platform thinking.” Experience identifying bottlenecks, improving responsiveness, and maintaining automation practices translates well across SaaS companies that operate at scale, particularly those running on public cloud infrastructure and iterating continuously via Agile delivery.
The position is best suited to an engineer who enjoys owning service quality end-to-end: design, implementation, performance tuning, and pragmatic troubleshooting. It also signals a working style that values peer review and technical mentorship, making it a solid match for someone ready to contribute independently while helping raise engineering standards within a cloud services team.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Software Engineer II (Backend) - Cloud SOAR, CyberSecurity
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable cloud services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of services.
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
- Mentor junior engineers and help them grow their technical skills.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our products remain cutting-edge.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 2+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering,
- Technical Skills: Working experience in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming languages (any of Scala, Java, Python, Go, etc.).
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
- Agile Development: Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
