Senior Software Engineer II - DevOps and Tooling

Senior Software Engineer II - DevOps and Tooling

The role is remote, anywhere in India

Summary of role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science or another scientific or technical 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:
  • 6+ years of experience in the design, development, and use of release automation tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins etc.
  • 3+ years of experience delivering enterprise-class JavaScript web applications with knowledge of component-based architectures, preferably with React and Redux.
  • 3+ years of experience in software development in Java/Scala/Golang or similar.
  • Excellent understanding of both frontend and backend development, including build processes, with hands-on experience using tools like make/npm/gradle.
  • Proficient with the JavaScript ecosystem, including technologies like Node.js, Cypress, Jest, Playwright, Webpack, Vite, and Turborepo.
  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/GCP.
  • Skilled in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform.
  • Proficient in scripting languages such as Groovy/Python/Bash.
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
  • Good understanding of GitOps and ArgoCD concepts and workflows.
  • Knowledgeable in the 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 SaaS analytics platform. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ 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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