Director, Product Management

Illumio; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 267,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to advance our security platform. You will architect and implement backend services in Python with Go as a plus, focusing on network security, APIs, and cloud integration in a hybrid Sunnyvale, CA environment.

You will collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, zero-trust capabilities across multi-cloud deployments, contributing to protections against modern cyber threats in real-world enterprise

Qualifications

• Go / Golang coding experience.
• Cloud experience with AWS or Azure.
• Networking experience, especially security networking.
• Building and deploying APIs.

Responsibilities

• Determine how to integrate firewall management security frameworks into our ecosystem using Go / Golang.
• Work in cloud environments (AWS/Azure) and focus on networking aspects of the stack.
• Collaborate with security teams to design and deploy APIs.

Skills

Go / Golang

Python

APIs

Networking security

Cloud experience (AWS/Azure)

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

The future of cybersecurity will depend on you

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python (Golang a plus))

Hybrid: 2 days in office/week in Sunnyvale, CA

As a Senior Software Engineer, every day you will determine how we integrate firewall management security frameworks into our existing ecosystem using Go / Golang. You will be working in cloud environments, like AWS, and you will focus on the networking aspects of our tech stack.

To thrive in this role, you will need Go / Golang coding experience, and cloud experience in Azure or AWS is ideal. You will need networking experience, especially security networking, and building and deploying APIs.

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.

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Product Management

Compensation

$267K – $320K

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: 5 On-Site Days a Week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Our Team's Vision:

At Illumio, our product management team thrives on visionary leadership, customer-centric innovation, and relentless execution. We tackle the most critical and complex challenge in modern cybersecurity: stopping malicious actors and containing cyber threats before lateral movement turns an attack into a widespread business catastrophe.

As a product manager here, you will directly define, design, and drive the future of Zero Trust, micro-segmentation, and automated breach containment. You will work side-by-side with world-class engineers, strategic partners, and global enterprise customers to defend highly complex hybrid data centers and multi-cloud architectures.

If you are eager to solve massive, distributed security problems and build resilient software that the world’s largest organizations rely on daily to safeguard their critical infrastructure, join our mission and shape a safer digital future.

Your Impact:

Define and own the strategic vision and multi-year roadmap for advanced security workflows within the Insights platform.

Drive the product strategy for advanced threat detection and behavioral analysis capabilities tailored to modern security operations center (SOC) environments.

Partner closely with engineering leadership across multiple engineering teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and deliver capabilities through agile development cycles.

Collaborate directly with field teams, customers, and strategic partners to gather operational workflow requirements and validate product-market fit.

Develop the innovation roadmap for advanced analytical models and AI/ML-assisted features that streamline security investigation and triage.

Lead product planning for platform integrations with ecosystem tools, enabling security operations teams to seamlessly leverage Illumio capabilities within their existing workflows.

Own competitive positioning against market alternatives, partnering with Product Marketing to articulate Illumio’s unified value proposition.

Build and mentor a high-performing team of product managers, establishing strong PM practices as the organization scales.

Your Toolkit:

10+ years of experience in product management or closely related roles (engineering, sales engineering, technical pre-sales) in enterprise security or networking.

5+ years of product management experience shipping analytics, detection, or workflow products in the network security or cybersecurity domain.

3+ years of experience managing and developing product managers.

Deep domain expertise in network traffic analysis, security analytics, or detection and response – with a practitioner’s understanding of how SOC teams investigate and respond to network-based threats.

Track record of defining and delivering enterprise SaaS products that security practitioners use daily, with demonstrable outcomes in user adoption and customer retention.

Experience with data-intensive security products: flow analytics, behavioral detection, SIEM/SOAR integrations, or threat intelligence platforms.

Established practice of utilizing data and analytics to inform product decisions, including product usage telemetry, customer engagement metrics, and market research.

Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels – setting multi-year vision while running sprint-level prioritization with engineering teams.

Bonus Points:

Product management experience at a vendor focused on network security analytics, security operations, or detection and response capabilities.

Experience building products that leverage network flow data (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, VPC Flow Logs) for security use cases.

Understanding of AI/ML technologies applied to security detection – anomaly detection algorithms, graph neural networks, or LLM-based security reasoning.

Background in network forensics, incident response, or security operations.

Experience with Zero Trust architectures, microsegmentation, or network security policy management.

Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms designed for security analytics at scale.
This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

Our Commitment

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.

All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official E-Signature document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Illumio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Compensation Range: $267K - $320K