Senior Manager, Engineering

Senior Manager, Engineering - AppSec SRE Want to lead a global team responsible for the most important product features – availability, reliability 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. 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. Responsibilities AppSecurity Program: Establish and evolve strategies and processes for the product and engineering organization to meet security, privacy, and compliance objectives Guide leadership and teams in the risk-based prioritization of compliance, privacy, and security efforts, and maintain respective backlogs and roadmaps Coordinate with team leads, managers, and individual contributors to ensure initiatives are prioritized based on risks and rewards, stay on track by identifying and removing blockers, and get completed Define OKRs and build and deliver program metrics and communications to provide updates to stakeholders Coordinate and support application security initiatives (such as, regular threat modeling and the mitigation of dependency vulnerabilities) across the product and engineering organization Help product teams develop secure applications for the Sumo Logic platform. Integrate and implement solutions improving Sumo Logic’s security posture. Lead security reviews and penetration tests at design and implementation stages. Partner with the Security Operations Center (SOC) and Compliance team on our security and compliance posture, vulnerability management, and threat modeling of our tech stack. Educate product teams on secure development best practices and Quality Engineering teams on continuous improvement of security testing. Reliability Program : Drive the program that maintains excellent uptime numbers for our services. Manage error budgets and associated policies for key product SLOs. Promote blameless post-mortem culture combined with developer operational accountability. Continuously reduce operational workload for engineers by means of infrastructure improvements and automation. Collaborate to lead the reliability programs with SRE leaders across geo. Team Leadership : Lead and grow a global team of SREs adept at building extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, efficient, and scalable backend systems. Technical Vision : 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. Required Qualifications and Skills B.S. in Computer Sciences or related discipline (M.S., or Ph.D. is a plus). Minimum 8+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership, delivery, and operational excellence. Minimum 3+ years in a management role. Experience being responsible for key SLOs of a cloud-based SaaS: availability, uptime, performance, and security. Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems. Object-oriented programming experience, for example in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++. Experience with high volumes of data using the latest technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker. Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development). Experience in big ... (truncated, view full listing at source)