# Staff Engineer
**Company:** [Illumio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/illumio)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Salary:** $194K-$233K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, SQL, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, REST APIs, TCP/IP, Unix/Linux, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-04-22
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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**.
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