Senior Engineering Manager - SRE

<h3><strong>Senior Engineering Manager - SRE</strong></h3> <p>Want to lead a global team responsible for the most important product features – availability, reliability &amp; security?  Sumo’s SRE program focuses on continual data-driven evolution and improvement of the reliability, security, and efficiency of our global scale technological presence. We are looking for a great leader with a passion for site reliability, continuous technology improvement, and reducing the operational workload of our own engineers - as well as our customers who leverage our products for their own monitoring and reliability.</p> <p>Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Sumo’s services have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs as well as the ability to quickly and continuously deliver value to our customers.</p> <p><strong>As a Senior SRE Engineering Manager you will be responsible for: </strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Cost Efficiency Program:</strong></li> <ul> <li>Carry out projects that actively reduce our AWS spend.</li> <li>Manage AWS resource reservations for our whole infrastructure.</li> <li>Observe our current spend on cloud resources and improve our cost monitoring ecosystem.</li> </ul> <li><strong>Reliability Program</strong>: </li> <ul> <li>Drive the program that maintains excellent uptime numbers for our services.</li> <li>Manage error budgets and associated policies for key product SLOs. </li> <li>Promote blameless post-mortem culture combined with developer operational accountability.</li> <li>Continuously reduce operational workload for engineers by means of infrastructure improvements and automation.  </li> </ul> <li><strong>Application Security Program: </strong></li> <ul> <li>Help product teams develop secure applications for the Sumo Logic platform.</li> <li>Integrate and implement solutions improving Sumo Logic’s security posture.</li> <li>Lead security reviews and penetration tests at design and implementation stages.</li> </ul> <li><strong>Partner with the Security Operations Center (SOC) on our security program, vulnerability management, and threat modeling of our tech stack.</strong></li> <ul> <li>Educate other teams about application security</li> </ul> <li><strong>Team Leadership</strong>: </li> <ul> <li>Lead and grow a global team of SREs adept at building extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, efficient, and scalable backend systems.</li> </ul> <li><strong>Technical Vision</strong>: </li> <ul> <li>Partner with our technical leadership team to review choices on an ongoing basis, in anticipation of increased scale and ever-evolving technology to meet the demands of growing business. Leverage technical skills to successfully analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems.</li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>What you have: </strong></p> <ul> <li>B.S. in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S., or Ph.D. is a plus).</li> <li>Minimum 8+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership, delivery, and operational excellence.</li> <li>Minimum 3+ years in a management role.</li> <li>Experience being responsible for key SLOs of a cloud-based SaaS: availability, uptime, performance, and security.</li> <li>Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems.</li> <li>Object-oriented programming experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++.</li> <li>Experience with high volumes of data using the latest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker.</li> <li>Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development). Experience in big data and/or 24x7 commercial service is highly desirable.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-service and Platform-as-a-service offerings - Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, etc.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Why it’s worth applying:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Competitive salary - employment contract w/65% authorship costs.</li> <li>You will work with great engineers on a complex product. </li> <li>4 extra days off / year (Sumo Wellness Days).</li> <li>Private healthcare for you and your family.</li> <li>Medical and life insurance. </li> <li>Sports card.</li> <li>WFH budget. </li> <li>Lunch budget when you work from the office. </li> <li>Individual English lessons with a native speaker.</li> <li>You can work from the office, 100% remotely or in a hybrid model. </li> </ul> <p><strong>About Us:</strong></p> <p>Sumo Logic, Inc., empowers the people who power modern, digital business.  Through its SaaS analytics platform, Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into th