Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Sumo Logic Sumo Logic · Enterprise · India · Software Engineering

This role focuses on ensuring the availability, reliability, and security of Sumo Logic's planet-scale observability and security products. It involves optimizing operations, improving cloud resource efficiency, hardening security posture, and increasing feature velocity for development teams. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will work on a reliability roadmap, collaborate with various teams, define and manage SLOs, participate in on-call rotations, and write automation code to reduce operational workload and eliminate toil.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the engineering teams within your product area by maintaining and executing a reliability roadmap of opportunities for improvement for reliability, maintainability, security, efficiency, and velocity - and help for realizing those opportunities.
  2. Collaborate with development infrastructure, Global SRE, and your product area engineering teams to establish and continually refine your reliability roadmap.
  3. Participate in defining, evolving, and managing SLOs for several teams within your product area.
  4. Participate in on-call rotations within your product area to understand operations workload so you can continually work to improve the on-call experience and reduce operational workload for running microservices and related components.
  5. Complete projects to optimize and tune on-call experience for your engineering teams.

Skills

Required

  • Cloud native application development experience leveraging best practices and design patterns
  • Strong debugging and trouble-shooting skills across the entire technology stack
  • Deep understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services.
  • Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
  • Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
  • Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Terraform or Cloud Formation
  • Ability to author production ready code in at least one the following: Java, Scala or Go.
  • Experience with Linux systems and at home on the command line
  • 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
  • Willingness to learn and use Sumo Logic products for solving reliability and security issues
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline
  • 4-6 years of industry experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security
  • Experienced with planet scale product development
  • Running and operating SaaS products on AWS Cloud with expert level proficiency
  • Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, Kafka Streams, or KSQL
  • Expert level experience in one or more of: Java, Go, Scala, or Python
  • Expert level experience in one or more of: Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes
  • Extensive experience running and tuning JVM workloads at scale

What the JD emphasized

  • Own availability, the most important product feature