Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer I role sits in a core layer of a SaaS observability and security platform: data ingestion. In SaaS, the reliability and efficiency of collection agents and pipelines directly shape downstream analytics quality and customer trust, making “data collection” work foundational rather than peripheral. The description points to production-grade constraints such as heterogeneous environments, continuous operation, and very high event throughput, which are characteristic of mature cloud services.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable systems skills that transfer across data platforms, monitoring, and security products. Designing fault-tolerant ingestion, optimizing concurrency, and operating distributed services at scale are recurring problems in subscription software where usage grows over time and workloads are unpredictable. Experience with microservices and infrastructure staples like Kafka and Kubernetes also strengthens an engineer’s ability to contribute across product areas that depend on streaming data and platform primitives.
This role tends to fit engineers who prefer deep technical ownership in backend and systems domains, and who enjoy balancing performance engineering with maintainability and testing discipline. It also suits professionals who like collaborative problem-solving and iterative improvement, particularly in environments where operational outcomes and engineering rigor are tightly linked.
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 - Data Collection
The proliferation of machine log data has the potential to give organizations unprecedented real-time visibility into their infrastructure and operations. With this opportunity comes tremendous technical challenges around ingesting, managing, and understanding high-volume streams of heterogeneous data. The Data Collection team owns the ingestion pipeline - starting with a lightweight agent to collect, compress, encrypt, and ship the data back to the Sumo Logic cloud.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Collection team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing advanced mechanisms to collect massive amounts of machine-generated data from heterogeneous systems in real time. You will build asynchronous systems with high levels of concurrency, multithreading, and parallel programming. The Data Collection team is responsible for managing the data collection infrastructure and collection agents. Individual agents collect at rates of tens of thousands of events per second.
You are a strong software engineer who is passionate about large-scale systems. You care about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested code; you do this as a member of a team, helping the group come up with a better solution than you would as individuals. Ideally, you have experience with performance, scalability, and reliability issues of 24x7 commercial services.
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.
- Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker!
Requirements:
- BTech., B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline.
- 5+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery.
- Object-oriented experience, for example, in Java, Scala, or C++.
- Understand performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc).
- Experience in running large, scalable, distributed services following a microservice architecture.
- Desire to learn Scala, an up-and-coming JVM language (scala-lang.org).
Desirable:
- 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.
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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The expected annual base salary range for this position is $141,000 - $165,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t 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 time of hire and for duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer nonimmigrant visa sponsorship for this position.
