Cloud Secure Intern, Data Ingestion, Analytics & Security

Illumio • Sunnyvale, CA

71d • $37

About The Position

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running. This is a 12 week internship program beginning on May 26th 2026 or June 22nd 2026. Location: Onsite 5 day's a week at Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a full time Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with an expected graduation date in Winter 2026/Spring 2027.
• Strong coding skills in Golang, Python, or Java, and an understanding of data structures and distributed system design.
• Curiosity about AI applications in cybersecurity, graph analytics, and streaming data pipelines.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• A growth mindset, strong analytical thinking, and enthusiasm for tackling scale challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test features within large-scale data ingestion and analytics pipelines that handle streaming telemetry across multi-cloud environments.
• Contribute to the AI-powered Security Graph, experimenting with data models and graph queries that enrich cloud visibility.
• Collaborate with engineers to optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across Kafka, Neo4j, and Postgres-backed services.
• Develop dashboards and automation for data health, ingestion latency, and observability metrics.
• Explore new ways to extract insights from flow data, using data lakes and analytics frameworks to uncover behavioral patterns.
• Document and share technical findings and impact metrics with engineering and product teams to support data-driven decision-making.

Benefits

• Experience operating in multi-cloud, petabyte-scale environments that power real-time cybersecurity analytics.
• Hands-on exposure to streaming data systems, graph databases, and data lake architectures.
• Mentorship from engineers building one of the industry’s most advanced cloud visibility and segmentation platforms.
• A capstone opportunity to design, implement, and demo a project that has a measurable impact on data scale, efficiency, or insight generation.
• Compensation: $37 USD.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees