Illumio
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
HQ - Sunnyvale (Office) · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience.
- 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 shaping the future of cybersecurity.
Responsibilities
- Asynchronous Systems: Architect and optimize high-throughput, event-driven systems using Apache Kafka to handle real-time data flows.
- Data Processing at Scale: Build and maintain large-scale data pipelines using Apache Spark or Flink to provide the high-volume analytics that power our AI.
- Agentic Systems at Scale: Design sophisticated AI Agents capable of autonomous planning, memory management, and high-reliability tool-use across distributed environments.
- Infrastructure & Orchestration: Lead the architectural design of containerized services on Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and scalability across Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Advanced IaC: Expertise in building reusable Terraform modules and managing complex multi-region cloud deployments.
- 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.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in backend engineering using Java, Python, or Go.
- Hands on experience with agentic frameworks (e.g., AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom orchestration layers), RAG, MCP, fine tuning models and prompt engineering.
- AI Ops: Experience with LLM deployment optimization (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM) or managing proprietary model inference endpoints.
Skills
- ONWARDS TOGETHER!
Company info
- Expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous architectures (Kafka), and large-scale data processing (Spark/Flink).
- Agentic observability using Langfuse, Evals frameworks for Testing/Resilience
- 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.
- 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.
- Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.
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