Staff Software Engineer
Sumo Logic22 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Discover cost and engineering-efficiency opportunities using production profiling, telemetry, cost data, capacity trends, and system analysis.
- Apply performance and capacity engineering to optimize CPU, memory, storage, network, and I/O resource usage.
- Write production-grade code for JVM/GC tuning, algorithmic improvements, resource-efficiency improvements, and service re-architecture.
- Define efficiency metrics such as cost per GB ingested, cost per query, cost per event, and resource utilization, and measure business impact.
- Lead cross-team initiatives from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, and measurement.
- Partner with product engineering, developer infrastructure, and Global SRE teams on reliability and efficiency improvements.
- Participate in SLO management, on-call, incident response, and blameless root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- B.Tech, M.Tech, or an equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of industry experience with a demonstrated track record of ownership.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithmic complexity, data-structure performance, and large-scale system design.
- Ability to write production-ready code in at least one object-oriented or systems language such as Java, Scala, Go, or C++.
- Production experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures.
- Demonstrated success independently identifying ambiguous performance, scalability, or cost problems and driving measurable production improvements.
- Strong quantitative reasoning about system behavior, capacity, performance, and cost using production data.
- Working fluency with AWS compute, storage, and networking concepts.
- Ability to investigate inefficiencies across application code and the infrastructure that runs it.
- JVM tuning and GC optimization experience, cost-attribution or FinOps exposure, Kubernetes, Terraform, modern CI/CD tooling, prior SRE experience, and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kafka Streams are preferred.
Benefits
- The role is hybrid and based in Noida or Bangalore.
- The position offers high visibility because cost and efficiency work maps directly to business metrics.
- The engineer has scope to identify opportunities rather than execute only a fixed backlog.
- The role operates at large scale, supporting systems that ingest petabytes of data daily and serve hundreds of millions of queries.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic builds a cloud-native SaaS platform for log management, security analytics (SIEM), and observability used by DevOps and security teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications and infrastructure. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it was acquired by Francisco Partners and taken private in 2023. The business is subscription-based and supports cloud and hybrid environments.