Senior Member of Technical Staff (Cloud Security)

Illumio; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Savings Accounts

Life and Disability Programs

Paid Parental Leave

Equity Opportunities

Paid time off and Holidays

Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

Job summary

Illumio in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an engineer to build containerized microservices for a distributed, multi-tenant system. You will design architecture, mentor juniors, and own the software lifecycle from requirements through deployment. Expect hands-on Go coding, data pipelines, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

Candidates should have 4+ years building distributed software, strong Go and SQL skills, and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP). Knowledge of networking and security is a plus.

Qualifications

• Unix/Linux programming experience.
• Go and SQL proficiency.
• Kubernetes-based platform experience desirable.
• Strong REST API experience.
• 4+ years building distributed and scalable software/systems.
• Cloud experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop containerized microservices for a distributed multi-tenant system.
• Design and defend the architecture before peers and deliver robust implementations.
• Mentor juniors, new grads, and interns to grow as engineers.
• Own the full software lifecycle from requirements to deployment and usage by customers.
• Own operational aspects to improve reliability and maintainability.
• Write high-quality code and perform early testing and integration testing.
• Collaborate with Product Management to refine requirements and exceed customer expectations.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer problems through stakeholder interaction.

Skills

Go

SQL

Kubernetes

REST API

Distributed systems

Networking

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

M.S. preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

• You will be developing 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
• You will design your service, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation
• You will also mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team
• You will primarily write code in Go and work with data pipeline using SQL or other types of interfaces. We leverage Kubernetes for service infrastructure platform. We welcome people with backgrounds in other languages and technology stacks along with a desire to learn
• 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

Benefits

• Health and Dependent Savings Accounts
• Life and Disability Programs
• Paid Parental Leave
• Voluntary Benefit Programs
• Company Sponsored Wellness Program
• Wellness Reimbursement Program
• Retirement Savings
• Equity Opportunities
• Paid time off and Paid Holidays
• Employee Incentive Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

• Unix/Linux programming environment experience
• Experience in Go and SQL
• Extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level
• Our platform is K8s based so experience delivering a containerized serviced is desired
• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree.
• Master’s degree a plus
• AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience:
• Language requirements
• Experience with networking and security controls is a plus
• General TCP/IP networking knowledge
• Passion for software development, willing to constantly learn, keeping up with technological trends, and working in a team setting
• 4+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
• CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have
• REST API client experience