About the job
Onwards Together!
Illumio stands at the forefront of ransomware and breach containment, revolutionizing how organizations protect against cyberattacks and foster operational resilience. Our innovative breach containment platform, powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, adeptly identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments—preventing attacks from escalating into catastrophic events.
As a recognized leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio champions the Zero Trust model, enhancing cyber resilience across the critical infrastructure, systems, and organizations that drive our world.
Location: Onsite, Sunnyvale, California (5 days a week in the office)
Our Team's Vision:
Our Engineering team thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a vibrant synergy that propels us forward in the dynamic cybersecurity landscape. Joining our team means becoming part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation, where you will work with an advanced technology stack across operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools.
We are shaping the future of cybersecurity. Together, we are committed to building world-class products—driven by diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and an unwavering commitment to innovation during a time of unprecedented cybersecurity challenges.
Your Impact:
Develop containerized (micro) services for a distributed multi-tenant system that processes data, real-time events, and network telemetry from various public clouds, providing customers with real-time insights, visibility, and security recommendations to help identify and minimize cloud risks.
Design and architect the platform and subsystems, meticulously working through all details, defending your designs and architecture among peers, and ensuring robust implementation.
Mentor junior engineers, new graduates, and interns, aiding their growth into effective team members.
Primarily write code in Go and manage data pipelines using SQL or similar interfaces; familiarity with Kubernetes for service infrastructure is a plus. We welcome candidates from diverse programming backgrounds eager to learn.
Own critical features and subsystems, managing the entire software development lifecycle from requirement clarification to successful deployment and customer utilization.
Contribute to operational excellence and drive our engineering efforts toward innovation and efficiency.

