Illumio The Sr. Staff Engineer at Illumio leads architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems for cloud security. The role drives technical strategy and mentors engineers across multiple product areas.
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of large-scale distributed systems powering Illumio's cloud platform.
Drive long-term technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple engineering organizations.
Design highly scalable, resilient, and observable backend services capable of operating at significant scale.
Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Security, and Infrastructure teams to align architecture with business objectives.
Establish frameworks, patterns, and engineering standards that improve system reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
Act as a trusted technical advisor and mentor to Staff and Senior Engineers across the organization.
Influence key technology decisions involving cloud-native architecture, microservices, messaging systems, data platforms, and service orchestration.
Lead resolution of complex architectural challenges involving performance, availability, reliability, and security.
Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption of innovations that improve platform capabilities and operational excellence.
Champion engineering best practices including design reviews, operational readiness, observability, testing strategies, and technical debt reduction.
Represent architecture decisions to technical and executive stakeholders and build alignment across teams.
This role aligns with Illumio's Senior Staff/Expert-level expectations, requiring broad expertise, leadership across multiple disciplines, independent judgment on significant business-impacting initiatives, and influence that extends across the engineering organization.
Qualification
Experience building cybersecurityPublished technical content
Preferred
Experience building cybersecurity, networking, or Zero Trust products.
Contributions to open-source projects or participation in engineering communities.
Experience scaling globally distributed systems supporting enterprise customers.
Published technical content, conference speaking, or recognized thought leadership within backend architecture and distributed systems.
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.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all employees can bring their best selves to work. We value individuals who Build Trust, Run to Challenges, Seek Truth, Leverage Differences, Bring Your Best, and move Onwards, Together.
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.
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