Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer II role sits squarely in the core of modern SaaS infrastructure: building backend capabilities for a cloud-native observability and security analytics platform operating at very high scale on AWS. The remit touches the kinds of systems that differentiate mature SaaS products—multi-region microservices, high-volume ingestion, and query workloads where availability and cost efficiency are product features, not just engineering concerns.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work offers durable experience in operating and evolving “always-on” services: owning microservices end-to-end, tuning performance and reliability, and making trade-offs across latency, resilience, and spend. Exposure to alerting, logs, metrics, and tracing also builds platform fluency that transfers across many SaaS categories, since these primitives underpin how cloud products are monitored, secured, and supported in production.
The strongest fit is for an engineer who prefers deep systems ownership over isolated feature delivery, and who is comfortable being accountable for production outcomes through on-call and service stewardship. It also suits someone who enjoys algorithmic thinking on large datasets and can lead within an engineering group while still remaining hands-on with design, testing, and operational improvements.
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 II - Data Experiences
Sumo Logic is a cloud-native SaaS data analytics platform, solving complex observability and security problems. Customers choose our product because it allows them to easily monitor, optimize and secure their applications, systems and infrastructures.
Our microservices architecture hosted on AWS ingests petabytes of data daily across many geographic regions. Millions of queries a day analyze hundreds of petabytes of data.
The Platform Data Experiences Team is responsible for building scalable, cost-efficient and highly available backend services for Sumo Logic Infrastructure Monitoring solution. You will join a team of engineers responsible for handling products like alerting and other query features for logs, metrics and tracing.
Responsibilities
- Develop features using algorithms that work optimally on very large data sets. These features would run on our backend systems that can handle enormous amounts of customer data, operate with high tolerance for errors, and can scale up as needed. These systems are responsible for managing and processing petabytes of data.
- Act as a team lead in the team.
- Write robust & re-usable code.
- Own a small set of microservices, analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability,
reliability and cost for the same.
- Act as a primary on-call for owned services, responding to service degradations in a timely manner.
- Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems.
- Write robust code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- B.Tech/ M.Tech/ BSc or MSc in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- 7-9 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership.
- Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++.
- Experience in building backend services for handling data at large scale.
- Understanding the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc).
- Desire to learn Scala, an up-and-coming JVM language (scala-lang.org).
Desired Qualifications and Skills
- Experience in big data / 24x7 commercial service / planet scale product development.
- Experience in agile software development (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development).
- Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security.
- Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems (desirable).
- Experience leading scrum teams planning and day to day execution
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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