Sr. Engineering Manager, Architecture

Illumio•Sunnyvale, CA

43d•Onsite

About The Position

Onwards Together! 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. Location: Sunnyvale, CA 5 days in office 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.

Requirements

6+ years' experience in building products with a focus on cloud-based high-performance systems
7+ years' experience in leading and managing high performance teams
Have led a team of 9+ engineers/mangers and owned accountability of E2E delivery
Excellent stakeholder and program management
Extensive experience building distributed systems and cloud services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Python
Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence
Knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP
Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery, RedShift.
Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs)
Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years
Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like Azure, AWS or GCP
Good knowledge and experience with developing REST based APIs and integrations
Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit/Spock/Jest etc) and code quality control platforms
Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps
Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies
Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
Well versed with Agile (Scrum) methodology

Responsibilities

Manage high-performing teams of 9+ engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery
Manage managers as well
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.