What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering position at Illumio?
Location: HQ Sunnyvale, CA
Onwards Together!
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.
Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
Our Team’s Vision
Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity.
When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You will build highly scalable and available cloud-based and customer-hosted services for Illumio’s Zero Trust Platform. You will have complete ownership of some microservices and be responsible for all aspects of design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. You will also contribute to shared platform components and modules
Your Impact:
$164,000 USD - $189,000 USD
The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws.
At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage – Health and Dependent Savings Accounts – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave – Voluntary Benefit Programs – Company Sponsored Wellness Program – Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings – Equity Opportunities – Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Employee Incentive Program.
Our Commitment:
Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.
All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official DocuSign document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.
Onwards Together!
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.
Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
Our Team’s Vision
Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity.
When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You will build highly scalable and available cloud-based and customer-hosted services for Illumio’s Zero Trust Platform. You will have complete ownership of some microservices and be responsible for all aspects of design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. You will also contribute to shared platform components and modules
Your Impact:
- You will develop platform components and microservices for a distributed, resilient, and highly scalable multi-tenant system. This system processes real-time network telemetry and computes adaptive security policies for millions of servers, endpoints, and cloud workloads.
- You will write code primarily in Ruby, use PostgreSQL and Redis in the data layer, and leverage Kubernetes in public clouds for our infrastructure. We welcome engineers with backgrounds in any high-level language and a desire to learn.
- You will own the entire software development lifecycle for critical features and services. You will partner with Product Management to refine requirements, own functional, integration, and performance testing to ensure our products are robust and resilient, and work with CloudOps to ensure the successful deployment and customer adoption of your work.
- Lead customer escalations, performing in-depth troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to ensure successful, timely issue resolution and optimal customer outcomes.
- Participate in high-profile customer calls, offering technical and architectural guidance to support customer deployments, use cases, scalability and performance.
- Collaborate with engineering and support teams to resolve complex technical challenges and communicate clear, actionable solutions to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree.
- 5 years of experience building distributed & scalable software and systems.
- Passion for software development and a willingness to constantly learn, keep up with technological trends, and work in a team setting.
- Experience building API-based webservices in a higher-level language and a desire to learn Ruby.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis or similar database and caching technologies.
- AWS / Azure /GCP cloud experience:
- Extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level
- Experience with networking and security controls is a plus.
- Experience delivering a containerized service running on Kubernetes in public clouds is a plus.
- Experience with networking and network security is a plus.
$164,000 USD - $189,000 USD
The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws.
At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage – Health and Dependent Savings Accounts – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave – Voluntary Benefit Programs – Company Sponsored Wellness Program – Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings – Equity Opportunities – Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Employee Incentive Program.
Our Commitment:
Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.
All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official DocuSign document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.
Salary : $161,000 - $185,000
