Senior Quality Engineer, CloudSecurity & Automation

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

Job summary

Illumio, a leader in Zero Trust segmentation, is seeking a Software Engineer for the CloudSecure team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will own quality across a multi-cloud micro-segmentation platform protecting workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP, spanning API, UI, and distributed services.

You’ll build automation, validate performance at enterprise scale, and ensure release confidence with a focus on chaos engineering and large-scale testing across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree.
• 3+ years building automation for SaaS or cloud-native distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Pytest, or equivalent.
• Experience designing automation for APIs, UI, and distributed microservices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking and security constructs (VPCs, VNets, Security Groups, Firewalls, IAM)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST APIs, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures.
• Ability to debug application code and work closely with developers to identify root causes—not just report failures.

Responsibilities

• Product Quality & Automation: design and implement test strategies for CloudSecure features.
• Build and maintain scalable API, UI, and end-to-end automation frameworks.
• Validate cloud security workflows across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to define acceptance criteria and drive shift-left quality.
• Own defect triage, root cause analysis, and release readiness for your feature areas.
• Quality Engineering & Infrastructure: design large-scale performance and scalability tests.
• Design and execute chaos engineering experiments including: database failovers, Kafka failures, network partitions.
• Own quality gates within CI/CD and improve automation reliability.
• Drive cross-module integration testing across UI, CloudSecure services, Policy Compute Engine.
• Develop tooling for self-serve test environments, test data, and automation execution.

Skills

Python

Go

JavaScript

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent

Master's degree a plus

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI

Job description

Illumio, a leader in Zero Trust segmentation, is seeking a Software Engineer for the CloudSecure team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will own quality across a multi-cloud micro-segmentation platform protecting workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP, spanning API, UI, and distributed services.

You’ll build automation, validate performance at enterprise scale, and ensure release confidence with a focus on chaos engineering and large-scale testing across cloud environments.