Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer II (Backend) role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the infrastructure layer that many subscription products depend on: large-scale data processing, reliability, and operational resilience. The listing signals a mature, production-grade environment—petabyte-scale workloads, fault tolerance, and 24x7 service considerations—typical of SaaS platforms that are deeply embedded in customers’ day-to-day operations.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable systems experience that transfers across companies offering data-heavy products: designing for throughput, improving efficiency under real usage, and proving correctness through automated testing. Exposure to distributed systems patterns, performance trade-offs in core data structures, and JVM-based engineering (with an on-ramp to Scala) aligns with the technical foundations that underpin many modern cloud services.
This role is best suited to an early-to-mid career backend engineer who prefers ownership and measurable engineering outcomes over feature-only delivery. It will fit someone comfortable thinking in terms of reliability, scaling constraints, and iterative improvement, and who wants to deepen expertise in production backend systems within a SaaS 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)
Location: India, Remote
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs.
Requirements:
- B.Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline
- 2-3 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership
- Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++.
- Understand 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).
Desirable:
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- Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly desirable.
- Experience in big data and/or 24x7 commercial service is highly desirable.
- You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X).
- Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development) is a plus.
- Enjoy working in an environment where stuffed squirrels and rubber bands are occasionally hurled at you.
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide 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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