As a Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, you will actively contribute to the design and development of new distributed data processing capabilities. You will be instrumental in helping us solve complex low-latency, distributed systems challenges to handle our ever-increasing scale. Our system is a highly distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant platform that includes bleeding-edge components related to storage, messaging, search, and analytics.

In Short

Designing and implementing extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data.
Work to improve algorithms built to schedule load on clusters of thousands of machines elastically at runtime.
Improve systems to provide performance guarantees to customers in a shared-everything multi-tenant architecture.
Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of our internal message processing technology to petabyte per day scale.
Help manage exabytes of data using the latest and greatest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker.
Work across Sumo interfacing with multiple teams including Search, Security and Metrics & Tracing to identify requirements and architect solutions to meet their data core ingest needs.

Requirements

B.S. or higher in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S. a plus)
4-7 years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
Experience developing scalable distributed data processing solutions
Experience in multi-threaded programming
Experience in running large scalable distributed services following a microservice architecture
Hands-on object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, Scala)
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

Health, Dental, Vision- Insurance
401k and Life Insurance options
Unlimited PTO with 15+ days of recognized holidays
Quarterly Wellness days
100% remote with the option to be in the office if you want (Bay Area, Austin, Denver, NYC)
3 months of paid parental leave

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