# Senior Engineer, Cloud Security
**Company:** [Illumio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/illumio)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Salary:** $170K-$196K
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Go, SQL, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, REST APIs, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible
**Posted:** 2026-04-22
> Develops containerized microservices in Go for cloud security platform, processing real-time telemetry from AWS/Azure/GCP to deliver insights and recommendations. Requires 4+ years distributed systems experience, Kubernetes, and cloud APIs; mentors juniors.
## Job Description
## 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 real-time insights, visibility, and security recommendations.
- Design services, defend architecture before peers, and deliver rock-solid 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 developer testing, functional/integration testing.
- Partner with Product Management to refine requirements.

## Requirements
- **Education**: Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent. Master’s a plus.
- **Experience**: 4+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems.
- **Cloud**: Extensively used AWS, Azure, or GCP at the API/programming level. Networking and security controls a plus.
- **Platform**: Kubernetes-based; experience delivering containerized services desired.
- **Languages**: Experience in Go and SQL. REST API client experience.
- **Nice-to-haves**: CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible. General TCP/IP networking knowledge. Unix/Linux programming environment experience.
- Passion for software development, constant learning, and team collaboration.
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