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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer I at Sumo Logic

- **Company:** Sumo Logic
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-04-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sumologic/jobs/7819104

## Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Location

- San Jose, Costa Rica - Remote

- Summary of role

Own availability, the most important product feature, by continually striving for sustained operational excellence of Sumo’s planet-scale observability and security products.  Work with your global SRE team to optimize operations, increase efficiency in our use of cloud resources and our developer’s time, harden security posture, and increase the feature velocity of our developers.  Work closely with multiple teams on assisted engagements to optimize the operations of their microservices.

## Responsibilities

- Continually improve the lifecycle of microservices and architectural components from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Participate in defining, evolving, and managing 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.
- 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 a fast-paced iterative environment.

Required Qualifications and Skills

- Cloud native application development experience leveraging best practices and design patterns
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting 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 AWS CloudFormation
- Ability to author production-ready code in at least one of 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
- 6+ years of industry experience.

Desirable Skills

- 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

## About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit[www.sumologic.com.](http://www.sumologic.com/)

[Sumo Logic Privacy Policy](https://www.sumologic.com/privacy-statement/). Employees will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection.

## About Sumo Logic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sumo Logic is a cloud-native AI-powered log analytics and security platform that helps organizations ensure their digital experiences are secure, fast, and reliable.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Francisco Partners in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Christian Beedgen, Kumar Saurabh

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity and Observability (Cloud Security, Log Management, SIEM)
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
- **Mission**: “Making the digital world secure, fast, and reliable” [sumologic.com](https://www.sumologic.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **Sumo Logic Intelligent Operations Platform**: Cloud-native platform unifying log management, monitoring, and security for Dev, Sec, and Ops teams.
- **Cloud SIEM**: Security information and event management solution designed for cloud environments, with automated threat detection and investigation.
- **Dojo AI**: Multi-agent AI platform for intelligent security operations and incident response, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR).
- **Log Analytics**: Log management and analytics for monitoring, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- **Flex Licensing**: Consumption-based pricing model allowing customers to pay only for the data they ingest.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (acquired by Francisco Partners in 2023 for approximately $1.7 billion; current valuation not disclosed)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – Not publicly available
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Francisco Partners (acquirer); key compliance certifications include FedRAMP Moderate, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS 3.2, GDPR, CCPA.
- **Growth Signals**: Launch of Dojo AI agentic platform; FedRAMP Moderate authorization; global hiring across US, India, Costa Rica, and Germany; reported 376% three-year ROI for customers.

## Competitive Advantages
- AI-native platform with specialized agents (Dojo AI) that automate triage, correlation, and response.
- Unified observability and security on a single cloud-native platform, eliminating data silos.
- Flex Licensing model enables cost-effective ingestion of all log data without budget waste.
- Strong compliance posture (FedRAMP, ISO, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI) trusted by government and regulated industries.
- High customer ROI and reduction in MTTR (60% decrease reported on website).

## Strategic Focus
- Intelligent SecOps for the AI era – leveraging AI agents to automate detection, investigation, and remediation.
- Continuous expansion of cloud-native capabilities and integrations to support modern digital enterprises.
- Scaling global presence and remote-first hiring to attract top talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values emphasize “Win Together”, “Stay Hungry”, “Be Customer Champions”, and “Own It” – with a focus on collaboration, resilience, customer obsession, and accountability. [sumologic.com](https://www.sumologic.com/company/careers)
- **Work Environment**: Many roles are remote (USA, India) with offices in San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Orlando, Tampa, Noida, Bangalore, San Jose (Costa Rica), and Germany. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sumologic)
- **Engineering & Growth**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, machine learning, site reliability, and threat research. Employees describe a supportive environment with career development and personal growth.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but global team, flexible work options, and a mission-driven culture.

## Sources
1. [sumologic.com](https://www.sumologic.com/company) – Company overview, mission, and purpose
2. [sumologic.com](https://www.sumologic.com/) – Product details, Dojo AI, Cloud SIEM, Flex Licensing, and compliance
3. [sumologic.com](https://www.sumologic.com/company/careers) – Values, culture, and employee testimonials
4. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sumologic) – Current job openings and locations
5. [sumologic.com](https://www.sumologic.com/company/leadership) – Leadership team and executive biographies

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