Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer I role sits at a core SaaS lever: improving day‑one product adoption through packaged “out of the box” dashboards, monitors, searches, and integrations. In observability and security analytics platforms, this layer is where platform capabilities become immediately usable outcomes, bridging raw data ingestion with actionable customer workflows across logs, metrics, and detection use cases.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the work builds durable platform-adjacent expertise: designing reusable solution content, shipping it through a release lifecycle, and automating deployment via infrastructure-as-code and APIs. That combination—productized integrations plus operational automation—translates well across SaaS companies that rely on ecosystems, marketplaces, and repeatable onboarding to reduce time-to-value and support scale.
The position is best suited to an engineer who enjoys owning deliverables end-to-end, from requirements through QA, documentation, and release, while collaborating across product, engineering, and customer-facing teams. It will fit someone motivated by applied problem-solving—turning customer and partner needs into maintainable, versioned assets—rather than purely internal feature development.
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
Senior Software Engineer I - Apps/Solutions/Integration Development
Build state of the art content, integrations and solutions providing Sumo Logic customers with insights on the health of operations and/or security posture of their infrastructure & services. The AppDev team is responsible for providing “out of the box” dashboards, monitors, searches, solutions and integrations that customers leverage from day 1 of their Sumo Service experience. These items are a major factor why customers adopt Sumo and gain immediate leverage from day 1.
Responsibilities
- Design & develop content such as dashboards, monitors and searches for the Sumo Logic platform to provide security detection, monitoring, and analytics capabilities for our customers
- Create the next-generation suite of monitoring, analytics for logs, security and metrics applications.
- Design, Develop next-gen observability solutions
- Work with several groups within the company (product management, product engineering, customer service, sales engineering) as well as customers and technical partners.
- Package and build content into Sumo Logic provided applications, and create automation scripts for these applications via Terraform or AWS CloudFormation or helm chart based on Sumo Logic’s API.
- Manage the application development lifecycle from requirements through development, to QA, documentation and public release.
- Work closely with product management and engineering teams to improve overall customer experience and product quality.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- You are a software engineer with 4-7 years of experience.
- Ability to write regular expressions or SQL queries.
- Experience with some of the following: major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), automation frameworks (Puppet/Chef), Docker, server virtualization.
- Hands-on exposure of AWS Lambda, Serverless Application Model, AWS IAM roles and permissions, Cloudformation templates, terraform will be added advantage
- Good command on Unit test frameworks and experience in developing unit test, integration test automation.
- Experience writing scripts in at least one of the following languages: Python, Node.js, golang.
- Good to have exposure to one or more of the AWS cloudformation, terraform, kubernetes, open telemetry, serverless code, helmchart.
- Good exposure in any Object Oriented Language (JAVA), CI/CD Tools, git actions, jenkins automation.
- Understanding the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc).
- Excellent communication skills and able to represent the team to internal and external facing teams.
- Nice to have AWS certifications for Associate Solution Architect / Developer / Professional
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc., empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Through its SaaS analytics platform, Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers around the world 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.
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