Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Microservices & Security

Illumio; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is hiring a software engineer to join our on-site team. You will design and build distributed microservices, containerized in Go, running on Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments, and you will own features from design to deployment.

With 4+ years of distributed systems experience, you will mentor juniors, collaborate with Product Management, and use Go, SQL, REST APIs, and cloud tooling like AWS/Azure/GCP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree; Master’s degree a plus.
• 4+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems.
• Passion for software development, continuous learning, and teamwork.
• AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience at API level; networking and security skills a plus.
• Experience delivering containerized services on Kubernetes (K8s).
• Go, SQL, REST API client experience; CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have; Unix/Linux experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop containerized (micro) services for a distributed multi-tenant system.
• Design, defend, and deliver rock-solid implementations.
• Mentor junior engineers, new grads, and interns.
• Write code primarily in Go; work with SQL and data pipelines; use Kubernetes.
• Own features and end-to-end software lifecycle from requirements to deployment.
• Own operational aspects and write robust, supportable software.

Skills

Go

SQL

Kubernetes

REST API

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's in computer science

Master's degree a plus

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Illumio, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is hiring a software engineer to join our on-site team. You will design and build distributed microservices, containerized in Go, running on Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments, and you will own features from design to deployment.

With 4+ years of distributed systems experience, you will mentor juniors, collaborate with Product Management, and use Go, SQL, REST APIs, and cloud tooling like AWS/Azure/GCP.