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IllumioIllumioSunnyvale, CA

Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer building novel Zero Trust Segmentation for containers and Kubernetes platforms. Design/own scalable distributed systems, mentor juniors, and collaborate with customers/field teams. Requires 8+ years experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and languages like Go/Python/Java.

194k – 233k/yr
On-site8+ YOESecurity Engineering

About the role

Your Impact

  • Build a new, unprecedented way to orchestrate Zero Trust Segmentation down to the application / pod level, identifying easily blocking pathways of attacks in the container ecosystem.
  • Understand and enhance modern container platforms such as Kubernetes, Istio, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, GKE etc.
  • Own and design critical features and subsystems, work out all the details, and defend the design before your peers.
  • Deliver a rock-solid implementation that is elegant, simple, scalable, stable, secure, and supportable.
  • Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team.
  • Work with the field organization and key customers to shape this novel product.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree.
  • 8+ years building distributed & scalable software systems.
  • Proficient in at least one higher-level language such as Go, Python, Java, etc.
  • Experience building large, distributed, and scalable software systems.
  • Familiarity with, and passion for Kubernetes and related technologies.
  • Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, networking concepts, and debugging skills.
  • General TCP/IP networking knowledge.
  • Unix/Linux programming environment experience.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Master’s degree.
  • Experience with networking and security controls.
  • Experience building large, distributed, and scalable software systems (repeated for emphasis).

Skills

KubernetesGoPythonJavaTCP/IPunixLinuxistioopenshiftaksEKSGKEData StructuresAlgorithmsNetworking

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