Staff Software Engineer, Cloud

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Security

This role will be onsite in Sunnyvale, CA HQ five days a week.

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.

In addition, the platform should be built with compliance in mind to be able to satisfy various regulations across industries.

The Cloud service provides zero trust segmentation capability between multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will contribute / own a few microservices. You should also ensure that service is built incrementally towards the bigger vision meeting the aggressive time-to-market requirements.

To thrive in this role, you will need to have 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 network security, 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.

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 your service, 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 requirement that exceed our customers’ expectations.

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

Experience :

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

8+ 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 of these platforms at the API / programming level

Experience with networking and security controls is a plus

Our platform is K8s based so experience delivering a containerized serviced is desired

Language requirements

Experience in Go and SQL

REST API client experience

CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have

General TCP / IP networking knowledge

Unix / Linux programming environment experience

About Illumio :

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.

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together.

We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging. #LI-KD1 #LI-ONSITE

Pay Range :

$175,000 USD - $210,000 USD

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws.

Benefits :

At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage Health and Dependent Savings Accounts Life and Disability Programs Paid Parental Leave Voluntary Benefit Programs Company Sponsored Wellness Program Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings Equity Opportunities Paid time off and Paid Holidays Employee Incentive Program.