Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform

As a Backend Engineer on the Dynamic Observability Team, you will play a key role in developing a scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform for observability and security products. This platform will serve multiple teams across the company and empower our customers to quickly generate high-quality signals and insights, enabling them to respond, resolve, and remediate incidents faster in real time.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data, specifically for AI-driven applications and platforms..
• Develop and optimize backend infrastructure to support AI model training, deployment, and real-time inference at scale.
• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems, with a focus on ensuring optimal performance for AI oriented workloads..
• Write robust, maintainable, and high-performance code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests and performance benchmarks.  
• Collaborate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and other cross-functional teams to integrate AI models seamlessly into the platform

Required Qualifications and Skills

• B.Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline
• 5+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership 
• Object-oriented experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++.
• Understand the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc).

Desired Qualifications and Skills

• Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly desirable.
• Experience in big data and/or 24x7 commercial service is highly desirable.
• Experience working on AI solutions, partnering with AI teams.
• You should be happy working with Unix (Linux, OS X).
• Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development) is a plus.
• Enjoy working in an environment where stuffed squirrels and rubber bands are occasionally hurled at you.

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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The expected annual base salary range for this position is $136,000 - $183,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards. 

Must be authorized to work in the United States at time of hire and for duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer nonimmigrant visa sponsorship for this position.