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Staff Engineer

Illumio· Engineering
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HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)$196k - $235kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Staff Engineer at Illumio responsible for designing and delivering containerized microservices in a distributed, multi-tenant system, mentoring junior engineers, owning features end-to-end, and contributing across the full software development lifecycle in a Kubernetes-based environment.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Primarily write code 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 own the entire software development lifecycle, from clarifying requirements to ensuring their successful deployment and usage by customers.
  • Own operational aspects of the system, gaining insights from on-call experiences to write better, more maintainable 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 that exceed customer expectations.
  • Develop a deep understanding of customers' fundamental problems through stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree. Master’s degree a plus
  • 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
  • Passion for software development, willingness to constantly learn, and team collaboration
  • Cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP): extensively used at API/programming level; networking and security controls a plus
  • Kubernetes-based platform experience; containerized service delivery desired
  • Go and SQL experience
  • REST API client experience
  • CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have
  • General TCP/IP networking knowledge
  • Unix/Linux programming environment experience

Skills

Required:GoSQLREST APIKubernetes

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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