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IllumioIllumioSunnyvale, CA

Sr. Staff Engineer

Designs and builds containerized microservices in Go for a Kubernetes-based platform processing cloud telemetry for security insights. Owns full lifecycle of features, operations, mentoring, with 12+ years distributed systems and major cloud experience.

225k – 270k/yr
On-site12+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop containerized (micro)services for a distributed multi-tenant system that processes data, real-time events, and network telemetry from multiple public clouds to provide insights, visibility, and security recommendations.
  • Design and architect the platform and subsystems, defend designs, and deliver implementations.
  • Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns.
  • Own critical features and subsystems through the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment.
  • Own operational aspects of the system and code quality with early testing.
  • Partner with Product Management to set product goals.

Requirements

  • Experience: 12+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems.
  • Cloud: Extensively used AWS, Azure, or GCP at the API/programming level. Networking and security controls experience beneficial.
  • Platform: Kubernetes-based containerized platform experience desired.
  • Languages/Tools: Go, SQL, REST API clients. Unix/Linux programming environment. General TCP/IP networking knowledge.

Nice-to-Haves

  • PostgreSQL, Redis
  • CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible

Skills

GoKubernetesSQLAWSAzureGCPREST APIsPostgresRedisTerraform
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