Staff Software Engineer

Illumio; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio is seeking a seasoned Cloud Architect to design and deliver massively scalable cloud-based solutions across hybrid multi-cloud environments. You will work on zero-trust and breach containment initiatives, guiding architecture and automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure availability, performance, and security while building fault-tolerant services at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or similar role in production environments.
• Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and Kubernetes/docker containers.
• Strong understanding of networking, security controls, and cloud-native architecture.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud architecture that solves business problems while balancing architecture considerations and margins.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and architect scalable cloud solutions.
• Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based architectures focusing on efficiency, scalability, availability, performance, and security.
• Evaluate and select cloud technologies and tools to meet company needs and drive innovation (Kubernetes, etc.).
• Optimize cloud systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud infrastructure health and performance.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities in the cloud environment.
• Stay up-to-date with cloud, distributed systems, and cybersecurity trends.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Java

Python

REST API

Agile

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

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

At Illumio, our engineering team thrives on visionary leadership, customer-centric innovation, and relentless execution. We tackle the most critical and complex challenge in modern cybersecurity: stopping malicious actors and containing cyber threats before lateral movement turns an attack into a widespread business catastrophe.

As an engineer here, you will design, build, and optimize massively scalable distributed systems that power the future of zero trust, segmentation, and automated breach containment. Working across a high-performance stack—from operating system internals to highly available multi-cloud scaling and immersive data visualizations—you will solve complex networking, massive real-time telemetry processing challenges.

If you are eager to conquer deep systems-level problems, build fault-tolerant software at a massive scale, and create a safer digital future for the world’s largest enterprises, join our mission and engineer the defense systems of tomorrow.

Your Impact

• Deliver cloud architecture that solves the business problem and balance architecture and business margins
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product manager, developers, DevOps engineers to understand business requirements and architect scalable cloud solutions
• Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based architecture using industry best practices, focusing on efficiency, scalability, availability, performance, and security
• Evaluate and select appropriate cloud technologies, platforms, and tools, including Kubernetes, to meet the company's needs and drive innovation
• Optimize cloud-based systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of the cloud infrastructure
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other operational issues in the cloud environment
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in cloud computing, distributed systems, and cyber security

Your Toolkit

• Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or a similar role, designing and implementing cloud-based solutions in a production environment
• 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
• Language and programming requirements
• Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, Python
• REST API client experience
• CloudFormation, Terraform are nice to have
• Working knowledge of spring or similar eco systems o Knowledge of Kubernetes and docker containers is good to have
• Gang of four design patters
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization technologies
• Built highly scalable distributed system from ground up
• Experience with building highly scalable and resilient cloud services
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Ability to work in an agile environment and drive initiatives with clarity and purpose

Our Commitment

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.

All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official E-Signature document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.

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.