Contribute to improve the lifecycle of microservices and architectural components from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
Participate in defining, evolving, and managing SLIs and SLOs
Write code and automation to reduce operational workload, increase efficiency, improve security posture, eliminate toil, and enable Sumo’s developers to deliver features more rapidly.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Participate and facilitate blame-free root cause analysis meetings for incidents to learn and drive improvement
Participate in and continually improve our global IRC (incident response coordination) for all products.
Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the various teams.
Work inside of a fast-paced iterative environment.

Experience in managing Cloud native application leveraging reliability best practices
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, CrossPlane, 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,CrossPlane 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
0-1 years of industry experience.

Software Engineer I – SRE

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