Sr. Member of Technical Staff

Location: Hybrid, Sunnyvale, California (3 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: 

• You will be developing containerized (micro) services and the associated components for a distributed multi-tenant system that process data and real time events and systems/asset/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 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 Java (using spring boot framework) and work with data pipelines using Kafka/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 very usable and supportable software, providing delightful experience to our customers.   

• Own quality in all aspects of the development process, as we do early developer testing and functional/integration as well as performance testing to ensure we build robust and resilient products.  

• Partner with Product Management to review and refine requirements that exceed our customers’ expectations.  

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

Your Toolkit: 

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree. Master’s degree a plus 

• 5+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems 

• Passion for software development, willing to constantly learn, keeping up with technological trends, and working in a team setting 

• AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience: 

• Extensively used one