Layoff
Jun 2023Sumo Logic laid off 79 employees, roughly 8% of staff, shortly after Francisco Partners completed its acquisition.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Sumo Logic is a private equity-backed software company that sells an intelligent operations platform for cloud log analytics, observability, and security/SIEM workflows. It is best known for logs-first investigation, AI-assisted SecOps, and a cloud-native SaaS platform used by 2,400+ customers globally.
Primary product
Sumo Logic Intelligent Operations Platform (cloud log analytics, observability, Cloud SIEM, and Dojo AI)
Founded
2010
Headquarters
855 Main St., Suite 100, Redwood City, CA 94063, United States
Team size
501-1000
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Cloud-native log analytics, observability, and security analytics software
Offices
Redwood City, California, United States
Austin, Texas, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Funding
Stage
private equity-backed
Total raised
$345.5M
Latest round
Acquisition (take-private by Francisco Partners) · May 2023
Latest amount
$1.7B
Acquisition (take-private by Francisco Partners)
May 2023 · Francisco Partners
Sep 2020 · Public markets
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Human Resources Officer
Work & culture
The company describes its culture around four values: Win Together, Own It, Stay Hungry, and Be Customer Champions. Public materials emphasize a collaborative, accountable, customer-first, fast-paced environment with supportive employee growth and a distributed, international team.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings and career materials signal competitive salary, equity awards, and bonus/commission opportunities; some roles also advertise healthcare, insurance, a lunch budget for office days, and 4 extra Sumo Wellness Days.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Equity awards
Bonus or commission plans
Healthcare for employees and family
Product & market
Pricing
Cloud Flex Credit usage-based pricing with subscription plans
Differentiators
- —Logs-first investigation and schema-on-read analytics
- —Unified observability, SIEM, and SOAR workflows
- —Cloud-native multi-tenant SaaS architecture
- —Usage-based Flex Credits for more predictable consumption pricing
- —OpenTelemetry- and vendor-neutral integration posture
- —Long-term searchable log retention for forensic analysis
- —Dojo AI agentic assistance for investigations and remediation
- —Sovereign/cloud-region deployment options for data residency needs
Technology
AWS CloudFormation
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
About $300M-$350M
Estimated monthly visits
208.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Signals & risks
Acquisition
May 2023Francisco Partners completed an all-cash take-private acquisition of Sumo Logic for about $1.7 billion, and the company delisted from Nasdaq.
SourceLatest news
PR Newswire · Jul 2026
Sumo Logic named Chris Malone CEO and Conor Burns CFO to scale its AI-first security and cloud operations platform.
Sumo Logic newsroom · Jun 2026
The company made its security and log analytics platform generally available on AWS European Sovereign Cloud to address EU data-residency and sovereignty requirements.
Sumo Logic newsroom · Jun 2026
Sumo Logic brought its Intelligent Security Operations Platform to AWS European Sovereign Cloud for EU data residency and sovereignty requirements.
Open Positions
22 jobs at Sumo Logic
Enterprise Account Executive
On-siteEnterprise SalesFrankfurt, Hesse, Germany1d ago
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