Staff Engineer

Illumio; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company in Sunnyvale is seeking an experienced engineer to develop containerized microservices for data processing. This role involves mentoring junior engineers and owning software features across the development lifecycle. Candidates should have at least 8 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), with strong skills in Go and SQL. Join a diverse and innovative team that is shaping the future of cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building distributed and scalable software.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP at the API level is required.
• Proficiency in Go and SQL is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Develop containerized microservices for data processing and real-time event handling.
• Mentor junior engineers, new grads, and interns.
• Own critical features and subsystems, handling the entire software development lifecycle.

Skills

Building distributed systems

Software development

Networking knowledge

Cloud experience with AWS/Azure/GCP

Go programming

SQL

Containerized services

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent

Master’s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Onwards Together!

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

Our Team's Vision:

Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You'll work with a cutting-edge technology stack that spans operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools.

We're shaping the future of cybersecurity. And together, we will continue to build world‑class products—led by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history.

Your Impact:

• 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.

Your Toolkit:

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

Our Commitment:

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Illumio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.