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Sr. Software Engineer - Container Security

Illumio· Engineering
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HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)$172k - $198kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focused on building containerized services for a distributed multi-tenant system to analyze real-time data, cloud telemetry, and network activity across multi-cloud environments, delivering real-time insights and security recommendations.

Responsibilities

  • You will be developing 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.
  • You will design your service, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation.
  • You will also mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team.
  • You will primarily write code in Go and work with data pipeline using SQL or other types of interfaces. We leverage Kubernetes for service infrastructure platform. We welcome people with backgrounds in other languages and technology stacks along with a desire to learn.
  • Own critical features and subsystems and own the entire software development lifecycle, from clarifying requirements to ensuring their successful deployment and usage by customers.
  • Own operational aspects of the system, being on the front lines and experiencing first-hand the challenges of operating such a system, will make you understand how to write better more supportable software, like no other experience.
  • Own code quality, as we do early developer testing and functional/integration testing to ensure we build robust and resilient products.
  • Partner with Product Management to review, refine requirement that exceed our customers’ expectations.
  • Develop deep understanding of the fundamental problems our customers need solved through interaction with stakeholders and peers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree. Master’s degree a plus
  • 4+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
  • 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
  • Our platform is K8s based so experience delivering a containerized serviced is desired
  • Language requirements: Experience in Go and SQL; REST API client experience; CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have; General TCP/IP networking knowledge; Unix/Linux programming environment experience

Skills

Required:GoSQLREST 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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