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Illumio

Staff Software Engineer

HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)Onsite · United States
Staff · FullTime · Engineering
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$190k–235kposted
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PythonJavaAWSGCPAzureKubernetesDockerTerraformDistributed systems

Onwards Together!

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.

Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

Our Team's Vision

At Illumio, our engineering team thrives on visionary leadership, customer-centric innovation, and relentless execution. We tackle the most critical and complex challenge in modern cybersecurity: stopping malicious actors and containing cyber threats before lateral movement turns an attack into a widespread business catastrophe.

As an engineer here, you will design, build, and optimize massively scalable distributed systems that power the future of zero trust, segmentation, and automated breach containment. Working across a high-performance stack—from operating system internals to highly available multi-cloud scaling and immersive data visualizations—you will solve complex networking, massive real-time telemetry processing challenges.

If you are eager to conquer deep systems-level problems, build fault-tolerant software at a massive scale, and create a safer digital future for the world’s largest enterprises, join our mission and engineer the defense systems of tomorrow.

Your Impact

Deliver cloud architecture that solves the business problem and balance architecture and business margins

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product manager, developers, DevOps engineers to understand business requirements and architect scalable cloud solutions

Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based architecture using industry best practices, focusing on efficiency, scalability, availability, performance, and security

Evaluate and select appropriate cloud technologies, platforms, and tools, including Kubernetes, to meet the company's needs and drive innovation

Optimize cloud-based systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery

Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of the cloud infrastructure

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other operational issues in the cloud environment

Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in cloud computing, distributed systems, and cyber security

Your Toolkit

Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or a similar role, designing and implementing cloud-based solutions in a production environment

AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience

Extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level

Experience with networking and security controls is a plus

Language and programming requirements

Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, Python

REST API client experience

CloudFormation, Terraform are nice to have

Working knowledge of spring or similar eco systems o Knowledge of Kubernetes and docker containers is good to have

Gang of four design patters

Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization technologies

Built highly scalable distributed system from ground up

Experience with building highly scalable and resilient cloud services

Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Strong communication and collaboration abilities

Ability to work in an agile environment and drive initiatives with clarity and purpose

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Our Commitment

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.

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