Staff Engineer

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:

• 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

Compensation:

$192,000 - $23