Engineering Manager, Architecture

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Location: Sunnyvale, CA 5 days in 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 Career 

You are a leader who is motivated to build and lead one or more high-performing teams and contribute to the architecture and design of new products or features. The role demands to lead, motivate, mentor, and provide ample guidance to team members with respect to product capabilities and technical challenges. The role is also expected to make a difference to the product in terms of innovation, platform mindset with focus on scale and performance, and contribute towards identifying technical risks and finding alternate solutions to problems. 

Your Impact 

• Manage high-performing teams of 4-9 engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery 

• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions. 

• Excellent stakeholder and program management skills 

• Establish best engineering practices and operation excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics 

• Interact with other Illumio engineering teams for getting and sharing expertise, as well as aligning on dependencies and deliverables. 

• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products. 

• Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions within the established architectural guidelines. 

• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products 

• Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams. 

• Participating in organizational events like hackathon/demo days etc. 

• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe. 

• Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow. 

 

Your Toolkit:  

• 6+ years' experience in building products with a focus on cloud-based high-performance systems  

• 4+ years' experience in leading and managing high performance teams  

• Have led a team of 7-10 engineers an