Sumo Logic

Senior Software Engineer I - DevOps Engineer

Exceptional software engineering is challenging. Amplifying it to ensure that multiple teams can concurrently create and manage a vast, intricate product escalates the complexity. As a Senior Software Engineer within the Release Engineering team at Sumo Logic, your task will be to develop and sustain automated tooling for the release processes of all our services. You will contribute significantly to establishing automated delivery pipelines, empowering autonomous teams to create independently deployable services. Your role is integral to our overarching strategy of enhancing software delivery and progressing Sumo Logic’s internal Platform-as-a-Service.

What you will do:

• Own the Delivery pipeline and release automation framework for all Sumo services

• Educate and collaborate with teams during both design and development phases to ensure best practices.

• Mentor a team of Engineers (Junior to Senior) and improve software development processes.

• Evaluate, test, and provide technology and design recommendations to executives.

• Write detailed design documents and documentation on system design and implementation.

• Ensuring the engineering teams are set up to deliver quality software quickly and reliably.

• Enhance and maintain infrastructure and tooling for development, testing and debugging

What you already have

• B.S. or M.S. Computer Sciences or related discipline

• Ability to influence: Understand people’s values and motivations and influence them towards making good architectural choices.

• Collaborative working style: You can work with other engineers to come up with good decisions.

• Bias towards action: You need to make things happen. It is essential you don’t become an inhibitor of progress, but an enabler.

• Flexibility: You are willing to learn and change. Admit past approaches might not be the right ones now.

Technical skills:

• 4+ years of experience in the design, development, and use of release automation tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in software development in Java/Scala/Golang or similar
• 3+ years of experience on software delivery technologies like jenkins including experience writing and developing CI/CD pipelines and knowledge of build tools like make/gradle/npm etc.
• Experience with cloud technologies, such as AWS/Azure/GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and tools such as Terraform
• Experience with scripting languages such as Groovy, Python, Bash etc.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana or similar tools
• Understanding of GitOps and ArgoCD concepts/workflows
• Understanding of security and compliance aspects of DevSecOps

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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About SumoLogic

At Sumo Logic, we specialize in empowering the digital workforce through our advanced SaaS analytics platform, focusing on reliable and secure cloud-native applications. 

Step into the heart of innovation with our dynamic and collaborative support team! As a Technical Support Engineer at SUMO Logic, you will play a crucial role in empowering our customers to harness the full potential of our cutting-edge cloud technology. Your expertise in logging, SIEM, and cloud solutions will be vital in guiding our customers toward achieving unparalleled business success.

You will be at the forefront of solving complex challenges and driving technological advancements by providing exceptional technical support and insights. Join us and transform challenges into opportunities, enhancing customer satisfaction and shaping the future of technology.

At SUMO Logic, our technical support team is recognized as one of our crown jewels, featuring some of the most technically adept individuals in the industry. Work here is challenging and rewarding, propelling you forward in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

What You Will Do

As a Technical Support Engineer, your role will involve:

- Working with customer support tickets in our Salesforce Service Cloud ticketing system

- Providing enterprise-level support to our customers and partners, focusing on technical issues related to logging, metrics, SIEM, and cloud technologies.

- Engaging directly with customers to quickly assess, troubleshoot, and resolve issues from simple to complex, ensuring effective communication and setting clear expectations.

- Document enhancements or defects in our products and advise on best practices for implementing and using the Sumo Logic service.

- Offering valuable feedback to our engineering, product management, and CS leadership teams based on customer interactions and experiences.

- Developing and refining processes, procedures, and tools for the support team to optimize customer interactions and stakeholder interactions.

- Producing Knowledge Base (KB) articles for common issues lacking a current KB or revising existing KB articles for the ticketing system KB and public community KB.

What You Will Bring With You

- Extensive SaaS Experience: Proven track record in a technical role managing multiple customer accounts, preferably with a background in DevOps Engineering, SOC analysis, or similar technical positions. 

- Customer-Centric Approach: Passion for customer satisfaction and problem-solving, with the ability to manage relationships across various levels, from technical practitioners to executives.

- Communication Excellence: Possesses professional and transparent communication skills. Able to deliver technical context to various stakeholder levels using remote (e.g., Zoom) or written media. 

- Strategic Problem-Solving: Ability to navigate ambiguity, proactively seek necessary support, and manage multiple accounts with attention to detail.

- Situation Management: Capable of assessing client scenarios, documenting issue timelines, and working with executive management and product engineering towards root cause analysis and final assessments.

- Desire to Learn: Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing environment with the ability to work with and deeply understand a new product or service. Utilize Sumo-offered LinkedIn learning and other resources to increase technical knowledge and sharpen soft skills. 

- Ability to support multiple international time zones

Desired Technical Qualifications

- Monitoring Platform Experience: Proficiency in Sumo Logic or similar platforms (e.g., Splunk, Data Dog, Elastic, New Relic, Appdynamics, VMWare Tanzu).

- In-depth Knowledge of Logging Systems: Proficiency in systems like Windows Event Viewer, Syslog, R Syslog, & Syslog-ng.

- Expertise in SIEM and Cloud Technologies: Strong understanding of cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and security information and event management (SIEM) principles.

- Advanced Technical Skills: Experience with system administration, SSH management, and basic scripting and programming (Java, C++, Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.). 

- Query Language Proficiency: SQL or similar query language skills.

- Kubernetes and Docker Proficiency: Extensive experience in setup, configuration, troubleshooting, tuning, and infrastructure management.

- Network Savvy: Solid knowledge of TCP/IP, ping, traceroute, Netcat, TCP dump, Wireshark, nslookup, etc.

- OSS skills in Otel, Prometheus, and Falco are a plus

- Sumo Logic experience is a big plus but not required 

Travel Requirements

Minimal, but generally once a quarter to once a year (1-5%) for corporate training and mandatory meetings.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.

Join us at Sumo Logic and contribute to our mission of revolutionizing technical support in the digital business world, with a particular focus on logging, SIEM, and cloud technologies.

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.

Sumo Logic Privacy Policy. Employees will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection.