Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Core platform engineering is a foundational discipline in SaaS, where product velocity and reliability depend on shared services, tooling, and infrastructure choices. A Software Engineer II role focused on a “Core Platform” signals work that sits beneath multiple product surfaces, shaping how teams build, deploy, observe, and secure a cloud-delivered application. In a company operating at the intersection of log analytics, SIEM, and operational data, platform decisions tend to have clear downstream impact on both internal engineering workflows and customer-facing system behavior.
For someone building a SaaS career, this kind of remit compounds: platform work develops judgment around multi-tenant architectures, service boundaries, and operational readiness in production. It also builds practical fluency in the mechanics that matter in subscription software—availability, incident response, telemetry, and cost-aware scaling—because success is measured over long-running systems rather than one-off releases. These skills translate across SaaS categories, especially where observability and security requirements are non-negotiable.
This role is best suited to an engineer who prefers enabling other teams through robust abstractions and pragmatic defaults, and who is comfortable balancing delivery with operational discipline. It fits a mid-level profile looking to deepen systems thinking while staying close to real production constraints in a cloud environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
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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.
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The expected annual base salary range for this position is $116,000 - $136,000. 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.
Must be authorized to work in the United States at time of hire and for duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer nonimmigrant visa sponsorship for this position.
