Staff Engineer, Container Security & Zero Trust Orchestration

Illumio; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio, a leader in ransomware and breach containment, seeks a senior software engineer in Sunnyvale to advance Zero Trust Segmentation across containers and pods. You will work with Go, Python, Java, and distributed systems in a cutting-edge security stack.

You’ll mentor juniors, collaborate with field teams and customers, and own critical features from design to delivery. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and secure, maintainable code.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree. Master’s degree a plus.
• 8+ years building distributed & scalable software systems.
• Proficient in at least one higher-level language such as Go, Python, Java, etc.

Responsibilities

• You will build a new, unprecedented way to orchestrate Zero Trust Segmentation down to the application / pod level, identifying easily blocking pathways of attacks in the container ecosystem
• You will understand and enhance modern container platforms such as Kubernetes, Istio, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, GKE etc.
• You will have the opportunity to own and design critical features and subsystems, work out all the details, and defend the design before your peers.
• You will deliver a rock-solid implementation that is elegant, simple, scalable, stable, secure, and supportable. Our product protects the critical infrastructure of large enterprises. It must work.
• 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 have the opportunity to work with the field organization and key customers to shape this novel product.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Networking

TCP/IP

Unix/Linux

Debugging

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science

Master’s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Illumio, a leader in ransomware and breach containment, seeks a senior software engineer in Sunnyvale to advance Zero Trust Segmentation across containers and pods. You will work with Go, Python, Java, and distributed systems in a cutting-edge security stack.

You’ll mentor juniors, collaborate with field teams and customers, and own critical features from design to delivery. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and secure, maintainable code.