Senior Staff Architect, Cloud-Native Systems

Illumio; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite

Job summary

Illumio in San Jose is seeking a senior technical leader for the Architecture Team to shape the next generation of our platform. You will set technical standards, guide architectural decisions, and partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams to influence customers globally.

You will lead large-scale distributed systems, advance cloud-native and microservices practices, and mentor Staff engineers while expanding observability, reliability, and developer productivity across Illumio's

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering delivering backend/distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design and operate cloud-native platforms.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, consistency, fault tolerance, caching, messaging.
• Strong Java and/or Go with architectural skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and evolution of Illumio's cloud platform.
• Drive long-term technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Design scalable, resilient backend services for large-scale deployments.
• Mentor Staff/Senior Engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Establish frameworks and engineering standards for reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Java

Go

Cloud platforms

Mentoring

Technical influence

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

AWS

Azure

GCP

Microservices

Service orchestration

Job description

Illumio in San Jose is seeking a senior technical leader for the Architecture Team to shape the next generation of our platform. You will set technical standards, guide architectural decisions, and partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams to influence customers globally.

You will lead large-scale distributed systems, advance cloud-native and microservices practices, and mentor Staff engineers while expanding observability, reliability, and developer productivity across Illumio's