Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Sumo Logic's observability and security platform operates at planet scale, and the posting opens by calling availability the most important product feature, which is a fair summary of what this job defends. You would work within a global SRE team on your product area's reliability roadmap, optimise operations, take part in on call rotations, and then use what you learn there to reduce the operational load for the engineering teams around you. The work covers the whole lifecycle of microservices, from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement. The technical ground is AWS networking, compute and storage, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins, with production ready code expected in Java, Scala or Go. One oddity in the years line is worth knowing before you apply, and it is set out below.

⚠️ What the posting states about experience: 8 or more years of professional experience in an applied software security role. That line sits in an otherwise entirely site reliability focused posting, and Sumo Logic's Senior Site Reliability Engineer I posting is identical apart from asking 4 to 6 years of industry experience, so the security wording reads like a copy and paste from another requisition. We have published 8 years because that is the figure the posting actually states. If your background is SRE rather than security, apply anyway and ask about it.

Also required: a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering or another scientific or technical discipline. Cloud native application development experience using best practices and design patterns. Strong debugging and troubleshooting across the whole stack. Deep understanding of AWS networking, compute, storage and managed services. Competency with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins. Experience with full lifecycle support of services from creation to production support. Infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation. The ability to author production ready code in at least one of Java, Scala or Go. Linux systems experience and comfort on the command line. Modern approaches to cloud native software security. Experience with agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.

The day to day: own availability for your product area. Participate in on call rotations, then work to improve the on call experience and reduce operational workload for microservices. Complete projects that optimise and tune the on call experience for engineering teams. Improve the lifecycle of microservices and architectural components from design through operation.

Location: the posting says Noida or Bangalore, hybrid, and Sumo Logic's metadata records the office requirement as Hybrid. Who should apply: senior SREs eight or more years in who want ownership of reliability roadmaps and are comfortable in an on call rotation.