Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Summary 

Develop and operate our planet-scale Kubernetes Platform for running Sumo Logic’s microservices to power our Observability and Security products across the world.  Provide consistent and seamless interfaces that enable our microservices to leverage key Kubernetes and underlying cloud features.  Allow microservices to run securely and efficiently without interruption.  Make your customers (Sumo’s developers) happy! 

Responsibilities

• Develop the strategy, tools, libraries, and workflow for evolving our internal Kubernetes Solution to maximize benefits for Sumo’s developers and product teams
• Facilitate internal adoption of our Kubernetes platform to realize optimized autoscaling, cost efficiency, automated problem remediation, and modern continuous deployment patterns
• Work with your team to establish service level objectives and monitor to ensure the objectives are met or exceeded
• Participate in an on-call rotation to manage incidents and support the services you have developed
• Drive root cause identification and issue resolution and continually improve operational posture
• Work inside of a fast-paced iterative environment

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Cloud native application development and operations leveraging Kubernetes at scale; hands-on experience with scaling technologies like Karpenter and HPA
• Operating (monitoring, alerting) workloads 
• Deep understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services.
• Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, AgroCD, Ansible & Jenkins
• Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
• Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Crossplane, Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.
• Coding fluency in at least Java, Scala or GoLang - and ability to author production ready code
• Experience with Linux systems.  Familiarity with AWS Bottlerocket is a plus.
• Understand and apply modern approaches to cloud-native software security
• Experienced 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
• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years of industry experience
• 2+ years of experience working on high-impact projects with data at scale
• Ability to lead, mentor, and work across teams with an emphasis on excellent communication
• English Proficiency

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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