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Sr. Engineering Manager, Analytics and Applied AI

Illumio· Engineering
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HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)$238k - $285kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior engineering leadership role focused on analytics, AI-enabled platform capabilities, and backend systems for Illumio’s cybersecurity platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of backend engineers building highly scalable cloud services and AI-powered platform capabilities.
  • Drive technical strategy and execution for distributed systems, platform APIs, and AI-enabled services.
  • Partner closely with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Data Science teams to deliver intelligent platform experiences.
  • Define architecture for large-scale microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud-native applications.
  • Help shape Illumio's AI roadmap, including agentic workflows, LLM integrations, RAG architectures, and AI infrastructure.
  • Establish engineering best practices around reliability, observability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor engineering managers and senior engineers while fostering a culture of ownership and innovation.
  • Drive quarterly planning, staffing strategy, technical roadmaps, and architectural reviews.
  • Ensure successful delivery of highly available services running across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years building distributed and scalable backend systems.
  • 3+ years leading software engineering teams and engineering leads/managers.
  • Strong experience in Java, Go, Python, or equivalent backend technologies.
  • Deep expertise with microservices, APIs, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
  • Experience building high-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures leveraging technologies such as Kafka.
  • Practical understanding of modern AI systems, including LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, model serving, prompt engineering, and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience partnering with Product Management to define strategy and deliver customer-facing capabilities.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across organizations.
  • Experience operating services in production with a focus on telemetry, monitoring, and reliability.

Skills

Required:Backend Engineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsMicroservices & Cloud-native ArchitectureAI & LLM / Agentic SystemsKubernetes & ContainerizationAPI DesignStakeholder Alignment

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.

About Illumio

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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