# Sr. Staff Engineer
**Company:** [Illumio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/illumio)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Salary:** $225K-$270K
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, SQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, REST APIs, Postgres, Redis, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-04-29
> Designs and builds containerized microservices in Go for a Kubernetes-based platform processing cloud telemetry for security insights. Owns full lifecycle of features, operations, mentoring, with 12+ years distributed systems and major cloud experience.
## 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 insights, visibility, and security recommendations.
- Design and architect the platform and subsystems, defend designs, and deliver 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 testing.
- Partner with Product Management to set product goals.

## Requirements
- **Experience**: 12+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems.
- **Cloud**: Extensively used AWS, Azure, or GCP at the API/programming level. Networking and security controls experience beneficial.
- **Platform**: Kubernetes-based containerized platform experience desired.
- **Languages/Tools**: Go, SQL, REST API clients. Unix/Linux programming environment. General TCP/IP networking knowledge.

## Nice-to-Haves
- PostgreSQL, Redis
- CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible
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