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Illumio

Staff Engineer

Develops containerized microservices in Go for distributed multi-tenant cloud security systems processing real-time telemetry on Kubernetes. Owns full lifecycle of features, operations, mentoring, with 8+ years experience in scalable systems and cloud platforms.

194k – 233kSunnyvale, CABackend EngineeringOnsite8+ YOE
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About the role

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems.
  • Passion for software development, constant learning, and team collaboration.
  • AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience at API/programming level.
  • Kubernetes experience delivering containerized services.
  • Go and SQL experience.
  • REST API client experience.
  • General TCP/IP networking knowledge.
  • Unix/Linux programming environment experience.
  • Networking and security controls experience (plus).

Nice-to-Haves

  • CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible.

Skills

GoSQLKubernetesAWSAzureGCPREST APIsTCP/IPUnix/LinuxTerraform

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