Illumio Senior Engineering Manager leading backend engineering teams building scalable cloud services and AI-powered platform capabilities at Illumio. Drive technical strategy and execution for distributed systems and AI-enabled services.
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.
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.
Qualification
Strong experience in JavaDeep expertise with microservicesExperience leading AI PlatformHands-on knowledge of vector databasesFamiliarity with Terraform#LI-TD1 #LI-ONSITE
Required
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 Kafka
Practical understanding of modern AI systems including LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, model serving, prompt engineering
Preferred
Experience leading AI Platform, ML Infrastructure, or Agentic Systems teams.
Hands-on knowledge of vector databases, inference optimization, model evaluation frameworks, and AI observability platforms such as Langfuse.
Security or cybersecurity domain experience.
Experience building enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
Familiarity with Terraform, cloud automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
#LI-TD1 #LI-ONSITE
This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.
Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.
