Senior Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Core Platform

Illumio; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a seasoned backend engineering leader to own and scale our distributed cloud platform. You will mentor managers, drive architecture for microservices and APIs, and partner with Product, Security, Infra, and Data Science to deliver AI-enabled services.

You will shape the AI roadmap, implement reliable, observable systems, and ensure on-site delivery across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Lead and grow a backend engineering team.
• Drive technical strategy for distributed systems and APIs.
• Partner with Product, Security, Infra, and Data Science teams.
• Define architecture for large-scale microservices and cloud-native applications.
• Shape Illumio's AI roadmap, including LLMs and AI infrastructure.
• Establish reliability, observability, security and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a backend engineering team.
• Set technical strategy for distributed systems and APIs.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, Infra, and Data Science teams.
• Define architectures for microservices and cloud-native apps.
• Shape AI roadmap with LLMs and AI infrastructure.
• Improve reliability, observability, and security in production.
• Mentor engineering managers and senior engineers.
• Plan staffing and quarterly roadmaps.
• Deliver highly available services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Skills

Distributed backend

Team leadership

Java

Go

Python

Microservices

APIs

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Kafka

AI systems

LLMs

Telemetry monitoring

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Illumio, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a seasoned backend engineering leader to own and scale our distributed cloud platform. You will mentor managers, drive architecture for microservices and APIs, and partner with Product, Security, Infra, and Data Science to deliver AI-enabled services.

You will shape the AI roadmap, implement reliable, observable systems, and ensure on-site delivery across cloud environments.