Staff Engineer, Cloud Security

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. The Staff Engineer, Cloud Security will develop containerized services for a distributed system, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the overall quality and operational aspects of the software.

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
• Design service, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before 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 in Go and work with data pipeline using SQL or other types of interfaces
• Own critical features and subsystems and the entire software development lifecycle, from clarifying requirements to ensuring successful deployment and usage by customers
• Own operational aspects of the system, understanding challenges of operating such a system to write better more supportable software
• Own code quality, conducting early developer testing and functional/integration testing to ensure robust and resilient products
• Partner with Product Management to review, refine requirements that exceed customers’ expectations
• Develop deep understanding of the fundamental problems customers need solved through interaction with stakeholders and peers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent degree
• 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
• Passion for software development, willing to constantly learn, keeping up with technological trends, and working in a team setting
• AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience: Extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level
• Experience with networking and security controls
• Experience in Go and SQL
• REST API client experience
• General TCP/IP networking knowledge
• Unix/Linux programming environment experience
• Master's degree
• Experience delivering a containerized service
• CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have