Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer II role sits at a familiar SaaS intersection: cloud-native backend engineering and security operations automation (SOAR). In the SaaS ecosystem, products in this space tend to be multi-tenant, data-intensive, and reliability-sensitive, which makes backend decisions around performance, scalability, and service design especially consequential.
From a career standpoint, the work maps closely to capabilities that compound across SaaS companies: building and operating cloud services, collaborating across functions to ship iterative features, and developing an instinct for bottlenecks, observability, and production correctness. Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and multiple backend languages also supports mobility across SaaS domains where architectures and stacks vary but operational expectations remain consistent.
The position is best suited to an engineer in the early-to-mid career phase who wants ownership over service quality rather than purely feature delivery. It will fit someone who enjoys structured collaboration (code reviews, Agile rituals) and can balance building new functionality with maintenance and automation work. An interest in security-adjacent problem spaces and systems thinking will align well with the SOAR and cybersecurity context.
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.
