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Staff Engineer, Cloud Security

Illumio· Engineering
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Sunnyvale, California - HQ$196k - $235kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer responsible for designing, building, and delivering containerized microservices for a distributed multi-tenant cloud security platform, primarily using Go and SQL, in a Kubernetes-based environment. Mentors junior engineers and partners with Product Management to deliver robust, scalable security solutions across multi-cloud data, real-time events, and network telemetry.

Responsibilities

  • Develop containerized (micro) services for a distributed multi-tenant system that process data and real time events and network telemetry from multiple public clouds to provide real time insights, visibility, and security recommendations to customers so they can identify and minimize risk in the cloud.
  • Design your service, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation.
  • Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team.
  • Write code primarily in Go and work with data pipeline using SQL or other types of interfaces; leverage Kubernetes for service infrastructure platform.
  • Own critical features and subsystems and the entire software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment and usage by customers.
  • Own operational aspects of the system to understand and improve the reliability and maintainability of software.
  • Own code quality through early developer testing and functional/integration testing to ensure robust products.
  • Partner with Product Management to review and refine requirements to exceed customer expectations.
  • Develop deep understanding of customer problems through stakeholder interaction and collaboration.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent; Master’s a plus
  • 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
  • AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience (extensively used at API/programming level)
  • Experience with networking and security controls is a plus
  • Kubernetes-based platform experience; containerized service delivery is desired
  • Go and SQL proficiency
  • REST API client experience
  • CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have
  • General TCP/IP networking knowledge
  • Unix/Linux programming environment experience

Skills

Required:GoSQLKubernetesREST API

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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The Breach Containment Company

Explore Illumio, the world's first breach containment platform. Stop cyber attacks before they spread with cloud detection and microsegmentation.

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