Staff Engineer, Cloud Security

Illumio • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Illumio is a leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, their 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 critical infrastructure, systems, and organizations. The Engineering team fosters a culture of visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership. Joining the team means becoming part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation, working with a cutting-edge technology stack that includes operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools, all contributing to shaping the future of cybersecurity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree.
• 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 delivering a containerized service (K8s based platform).
• Experience in Go and SQL.
• REST API client experience.
• General TCP/IP networking knowledge.
• Unix/Linux programming environment experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree a plus.
• Experience with networking and security controls is a plus.
• CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Develop 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.
• Design your service, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation.
• Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team.
• Primarily write code in Go and work with data pipeline using SQL or other types of interfaces.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees