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IllumioIllumioSunnyvale, CA

Staff Engineer, Cloud Security

Develops containerized microservices in Go for Illumio's cloud security platform, processing real-time cloud telemetry on Kubernetes to deliver security insights and recommendations. Requires 8+ years experience with public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP) and mentors junior engineers.

194k – 233k
On-site8+ YOESecurity Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop containerized (micro)services for a distributed multi-tenant system processing data, real-time events, and network telemetry from public clouds to provide insights, visibility, and security recommendations.
  • Design services, defend architecture before peers, and deliver robust implementations.
  • Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns.
  • Own critical features and subsystems through the full software development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment.
  • Own operational aspects of the system and code quality with early testing.
  • Partner with Product Management to refine requirements.
  • Develop deep understanding of customer problems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent (Master’s a plus).
  • 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems.
  • Passion for software development, constant learning, and teamwork.
  • Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP at API/programming level.
  • Experience with Go and SQL.
  • Kubernetes experience delivering containerized services.
  • REST API client experience.
  • General TCP/IP networking knowledge.
  • Unix/Linux programming environment experience.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Networking and security controls.
  • CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible.

Skills

GoKubernetesSQLAWSAzureGCPREST APIsTCP/IPUnix/LinuxTerraform

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