Principal Engineer, Architecture Team

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Location: Onsite, Sunnyvale, California (5 days a week in the office)

Onwards Together!  

Illumio, the pioneer and market leader of Zero Trust segmentation, prevents breaches from becoming cyber disasters. Illumio protects critical applications and valuable digital assets with proven segmentation technology purpose-built for the Zero Trust security model. Illumio ransomware mitigation and segmentation solutions see risk, isolate attacks, and secure data across cloud-native apps, hybrid and multi-clouds, data centers, and endpoints, enabling the world’s leading organizations to strengthen their cyber resiliency and reduce risk.  

Illuminate the future with Illumio and join a team that’s passionate about developing cutting-edge security solutions that protect the world's most critical assets. 

Our Team's Vision

Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity. 

When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You'll work with a cutting-edge technology stack that spans operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools.  

We're shaping the future of cybersecurity. And together, we will continue to build world-class products—led by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history. 

Your Impact:

This is a unique role that requires different skills: Security, development, and knowledge of the end-to-end certification process. This role goes beyond DevOps role and includes the opportunity to contribute significantly to hands-on platform product development. To be successful in this role, you will:

• Own the requirements for certifications and work with external agencies on requirement clarifications then translate it to Epics and stories that the team can execute on. Provide technical leadership and guidance to internal/external teams to support certifications.

• Lead certification programs and Interface to DevOps, Product Managers, Security team, certification agencies, and auditors.

• Document and introduce processes to drive the implementation of the controls needed to ga.

• Lead multiple initiatives, develop proofs of concept (PoCs) when needed, and build a Plan/Proposal considering all cross functional dependencies towards a successful execution plan.

• Participate in development tasks and have a hands-on role building features.

• Mentor engineers, collaborate with peers and leaders in our organization to drive programs.

• Provide guidance and mentor the team on technical challenges and help the team with roadblocks especially in PKI, Security, and certification process.

Your Toolkit:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent Expand your domain of expertise relevant work experience

• Extensive experience in leading security initiatives and driving certification programs with focus on Federal programs

• Experience with running multiple successful Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) /Common Criteria certification programs

• Experience with FedRAMP certification/audits, running security scans and addressing audit findings into the product

• Production experience building highly scalable and performing distributed systems for Security products

• Self-driven, independent, product architect or principal engineer who want to be hands-on and own the architecture, design, and implementation of initiatives

• Production experience building applications in high level languages such as Ruby, Python, or Java building large scale and highly performing distributed systems

• Strong knowledge of security protocols such as Public key infrastructure (PKI), lead Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)