Software Engineer II

Software Engineer - II - Data Query Team

The Data Query Team is responsible for building scalable, cost-efficient and highly available backend services for building and managing a proprietary query engine for logs, metrics and tracing product. You will join a team that is responsible for serving hundreds of millions of queries per day and analysing thousands of petabytes of data.

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 the team with on-call support
  
  

Required Qualifications And Skills

• 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).
  
  

Desired Qualifications And Skills

• 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. 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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