Senior Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer

On-site work model of 5 days in office/week in Sunnyvale, CA

In this role, you will focus on the building Illumio Cloud service. Building this cloud service requires building a highly available and scalable cloud platform. The platform needs to provide at least 4 9’s of reliability. In addition, the platform should be built with compliance in mind to be able to satisfy various regulation across industries. The Cloud service provides zero trust network and workload segmentation capability between multi cloud and hybrid cloud deployments. 

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you need to ensure that the cloud service is architected well leveraging industry best practices and open source. You should also ensure that service is built incrementally towards the bigger vision meeting the aggressive time to market requirements. You should ensure the cloud service is highly available and reliable delivering 

To thrive in this role, you will need Go / Golang coding experience, and cloud experience in Azure or AWS or GCP. You should have worked on Kubernetes and distributed systems and building API based microservices. Networking experience, especially security networking, is an added advantage. 

About the Team:

Our Engineering team has established a culture based on thought leadership, independence, and responsibility. This powerful dynamic drives us forward as we work to make the digital world a safer place.  

Those who join us represent the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation and work on a technology stack that ranges from operating systems to distributed applications to UI and visualization. Together, we will continue to build world-class products—driven by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history.

Our Engineering team has established a culture based on thought leadership, independence, and responsibility. This powerful dynamic drives us forward as we work to make the digital world a safer place.   

Those who join us represent the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation and work on a technology stack that ranges from operating systems to distributed applications to UI and visualization. Together, we will continue to build world-class products—driven by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history. 

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be developing containerized (micro) services for a distributed multi-tenant system that process data and real time events and network telemetry from multiple public clouds to provide real time insights, visibility, and security recommendations to customers so they can identify and minimize risk in the cloud. 

• You will design and architecture the platform and subsystems, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation. 

• You will also mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team. 

• You will primarily write code in Go and work with data pipeline using SQL or other types of interfaces. We leverage Kubernetes for service infrastructure platform.  We welcome people with backgrounds in other languages and technology stacks along with a desire to learn. 

• Own critical features and subsystems and own the entire software development lifecycle, from clarifying requirements to ensuring their successful deployment and usage by customers. 

• Own operational aspects of the system, being on the front lines and experiencing first-hand the challenges of operating such a system, will make you understand how to write better more supportable software, like no other experience.  

• Own code quality, as we do early developer testing and functional/integration testing to ensure we build robust and resilient products. 

• Partner with Product Management to review, refine and set product goals and objectives that exceed our customers’ expectations. 

• Develop deep understanding of the fundamental problems our customers need solved through interaction with stakeholders and peers. 

Experience:

• You will be developing containerized (micro) services for a distributed multi-tenant system that process data and real time events and network telemetry from multiple public clouds to provide real time insights, visibility, and security recommendations to customers so they can identify and minimize risk in the cloud. 

• You will design