SWE-1, Site Reliability Engineer

Summary of role

Own availability, the most important product feature, by continually striving for sustained operational excellence of Sumo’s planet-scale observability and security products.  Work with your global SRE team to optimize operations, increase efficiency in our use of cloud resources and our developer’s time, harden the security posture, and increase the feature velocity of our developers.  Work closely with multiple teams on assisted engagements to optimize the operations of their microservices.

Responsibilities

• Continually improve the lifecycle of microservices and architectural components from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Participate in defining, evolving, and managing SLOs
• Write code and automation to reduce operational workload, increase efficiency, improve security posture, eliminate toil, and enable Sumo’s developers to deliver features more rapidly.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Facilitate blame-free root cause analysis meetings for incidents to learn and drive improvement
• Participate in and continually improve our global IRC (incident response coordination) for all products.
• Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the various teams.
• Work inside of a fast-paced iterative environment.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Cloud native application development experience leveraging best practices and design patterns
• Strong debugging and trouble-shooting skills across the entire technology stack
• Understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services.
• Experience with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
• Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
• Ability to author production ready code in at least one the following: Java, Scala or Go.
• Experience with Linux systems and at home on the command line
• Understand and apply modern approaches to cloud-native software security
• Experience with agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, and how to operate within these frameworks to continually deliver value.
• Flexible and willing to step into new roles and responsibilities
• Willingness to learn and use Sumo Logic products for solving reliability and security issues
• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline
• 1+ years of industry experience.

Desirable Skills

• Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security
• Experienced with planet scale product development
• Running and operating SaaS products on AWS Cloud with expert level proficiency
• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, Kafka Streams, or KSQL
• Advanced level experience in one or more of: Java, Go, Scala, or Python
• Advanced level experience in one or more of: Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Extensive experience running and tuning JVM workloads at scale

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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The expected annual base salary range for this position is $105,000 - $125,000. At the Swe-1 level there is no bonus or equity.  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.

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