# Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform

**Company:** [Illumio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/illumio)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $233k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Java, Spring Boot, Go, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, BigQuery, Redshift, REST APIs, SQL, NoSQL, CI/CD, Jenkins, Git
**Posted:** 2026-07-07

> Lead and manage teams of 9+ engineers (including managers) to deliver end-to-end platform solutions for a Zero Trust cybersecurity product. Drive architecture, distributed cloud systems, operational excellence, and roadmap planning while mentoring teams and collaborating with product and business stakeholders.

## Job Description

## Your Impact
- Manage high-performing teams of 9+ engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery.
- Manage managers.
- Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions.
- Establish best engineering practices and operational excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics.
- Interact with other Illumio engineering teams for getting and sharing expertise, as well as aligning on dependencies and deliverables.
- Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
- Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions within the established architectural guidelines.
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products.
- Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.
- Participating in organizational events like hackathon/demo days etc.
- Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
- Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow.

## Your Toolkit
- 6+ years' experience in building products with a focus on cloud-based high-performance systems.
- 7+ years' experience in leading and managing high performance teams.
- Have led a team of 9+ engineers/managers and owned accountability of E2E delivery.
- Excellent stakeholder and program management.
- Extensive experience building distributed systems and cloud services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Python.
- Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP.
- Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery, RedShift.
- Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs).
- Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years.
- Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Good knowledge and experience with developing REST based APIs and integrations.
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
- Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit/Spock/Jest etc) and code quality control platforms.
- Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps.
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
- Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
- Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
- Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
- Well versed with Agile (Scrum) methodology.

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