Illumio

Illumio

Staff Engineer - Cloud Security

Sunnyvale, California - HQ · Staff+ · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 10 days ago
GoSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformAnsibleLinuxRESTCybersecurityTCP/IPZero TrustLeadershipCommunication

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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.

Responsibilities

  • You will design your service, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation.
  • 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.
  • 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • 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

Skills

  • ONWARDS TOGETHER!
  • 5 ON-SITE DAYS A WEEK IN SUNNYVALE, CA HEADQUARTERS.

Company info

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent degree. Master's degree a plus
  • Passion for software development, willing to constantly learn, keeping up with technological trends, and working in a team setting
  • We leverage Kubernetes for service infrastructure platform.

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