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 shaping the future of cybersecurity. We thrive on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, fostering a culture of innovation that propels us forward in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.

As a leader in Zero Trust Segmentation, we are redefining security for a world facing unprecedented cyber threats. You’ll work with a highly scalable SaaS service built using cloud-native technologies while simultaneously shipping the solution on-premises.

Our guiding philosophy in Engineering is to get things right through practicing disciplined engineering, focusing, not cutting corners, and of course having fun while we are at it. We believe in enabling ownership at all levels of the organization and empowering teams. If you thrive in this culture, come join us!

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:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field; a Master's degree is a plus.

• Experience:

  • 5+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems.

  • Understanding of authentication and authorization protocols: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML. This includes implementing and managing user identities, roles, and permissions.

  • Strong foundation in software engineering and design pattern fundamentals.

  • Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to optimize code for the best possible outcomes.

• Technical Skills:

  • 2+ years of building containerized applications using Kubernetes

  • Deep understanding of Go syntax, standard libraries, goroutines, channels, and best practices for building efficient, concurrent applications

  • Experience designing, building, and deploying RESTful APIs and microservices using common Go frameworks and tools like gRPC.

  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, including custom controller/operator development using Go

  • Expertise in implementing and managing comprehensive observability stacks using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, Jaeger, or OpenTelemetry.

  • Designing and implementing robust, secure, and efficient CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Argo CD.

  • CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have

  • TCP/IP networking knowledge

• Passion and Growth: Passion for software development, a willingness to constantly learn, stay updated with technological trends, and work effectively in a team setting.

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

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.

Compensation Range: $173K - $207K