Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer II role sits at the heart of a modern SaaS observability platform: ingest. Core ingest pipelines are where multi-tenant promises become real, translating unpredictable customer telemetry into reliable storage, search, and analytics. The scope described, petabytes per day and exabytes searchable, signals a mature cloud service where distributed systems design directly affects product trust and customer outcomes.
For a SaaS engineering career, this kind of work builds durable strengths in operating and evolving always-on platforms. Experience with fault tolerance, performance guarantees in shared infrastructure, and elastic scheduling across large clusters maps cleanly to other large-scale SaaS domains, including security, data platforms, and developer tooling. Cross-team architecture work with Search, Security, and Metrics and Tracing also mirrors how platform engineering influences multiple product surfaces in SaaS organizations.
The fit skews toward engineers who enjoy deep backend problem-solving and are comfortable owning reliability in production, including periodic on-call. It suits someone who prefers systems thinking over feature UI work, values clear communication across teams, and wants hands-on exposure to Kafka, Kubernetes, and microservice patterns in a multi-tenant environment.
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Job Description
Software Engineer II - Core Ingest
Job Description
Sumo Logic is hiring a Software Engineer II for our Core Ingest team. You will actively contribute to the design and development of new distributed data processing capabilities across large data platforms. You will be instrumental in helping us solve complex, low-latency, distributed systems challenges across large data to handle our ever-increasing scale. Our system is a highly distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant platform that includes state-of-the-art components related to storage, messaging, search, and analytics. This system ingests and analyzes petabytes of data a day, while making exabytes of data available for search and forensic analysis. Sumo Logic supports both remote and hybrid locations for this role.
What you’ll be working on:
- Designing and implementing large data, extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.
- Working to improve algorithms built to schedule load on clusters of thousands of machines elastically at runtime.
- Improving systems to provide performance guarantees to customers in a shared-everything multi-tenant architecture.
- Contributing to the re-architecting of our internal message processing technology to petabyte per day scale.
- Helping manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker.
- Partnering across Sumo interfacing with multiple teams including Search, Security and Metrics & Tracing to identify requirements and architect solutions to meet their data core ingest needs.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
- 2+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
- Experience developing scalable distributed data processing solutions
- Experience in multi-threaded programming
- Experience in running large, scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture
- Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness and experience with occasional on-call availability. Rotations scheduled approximately every 6-8 weeks for a 12-hour timeline, duration 1 week primary, 1 week to assist primary only if needed, starting 9-11 am PDT/MDT/CDT and ending 12 hours later.
Desired Qualifications and Skills
- Experience in big data and/or 24x7 commercial service is highly desirable.
- Experience with Apache Kafka is a plus.
- You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X).
- Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development) is a plus.
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, 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 $116,000.00 - $136,000.00. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, including (but not 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 the time of hire and for the duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer non-immigrant visa sponsorship for this position.
