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Illumio

Director, Engineering

Leads engineering team to deliver CloudSecure product roadmap, managing development, hires, and cross-functional decisions for on-time releases in Zero Trust security. Requires 10+ years software experience, 6+ years people management, and cloud expertise.

263k – 315kSunnyvale, CAEngineering ManagementOnsite10+ YOE
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About the role

Responsibilities

  • Deliver roadmap for the new CloudSecure product.
  • Responsible for growth and development of the team delivering this capability, partnering with senior technical leads.
  • Understand all aspects of product and technology to make decisions with engineering, product management, and other functions.
  • Define and drive rapid development, release, measurement, and iteration process to achieve feature completeness and quality.
  • Be decisive in ambiguity, balance business concerns with deadlines, accountable for on-time releases.
  • Part of technical leadership community: contribute to product planning, innovation, business milestones, resource requirements, long-term strategy, hiring, and delivering innovative products.

Requirements

  • BS Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 10 years’ experience planning, designing, developing, and delivering software.
  • 6 years’ experience as People Manager in software development, managing range from new grads to experienced developers.
  • Experience building Cloud products (Cloud Security preferred).
  • Understanding of good UI design and visualization of complex systems.
  • Track record of leadership in engineering organization: hiring, enabling, empowering high-performing teams.
  • Hands-on experience managing agile development (scrum preferred).
  • Significant technical experience with distributed systems, RESTful web services, high-scale SaaS, public clouds, from inception to delivery.
  • Experience with public cloud APIs/services for securing cloud entities.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, testing automation, production telemetry.
  • Excellent communication skills for complex technical information.

Skills

Cloud SecurityREST APIsSaaSPublic CloudsDistributed SystemsAgileScrumDevOpsCI/CDKubernetes

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