Senior Engineering Manager, Illumio
Analytics and Applied AI
$233-280k
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
Open for applications
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$233-280k
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable every organization to realize a future without high-profile breaches.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity
- When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You'll work with a cutting-edge technology stack that spans operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools
- We're shaping the future of cybersecurity. And together, we will continue to build world-class products—led by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history
- 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
Our take
Cybersecurity remains an ongoing battle, with evolving cyberthreats and ever-more determined cybercriminals, and major data breaches such as the SolarWinds hack have the potential to cause widespread disruption. Illumio is taking a different approach to most of the mainstream security companies, with a process called "microsegmentation". This makes it easier to guard companies from security breaches and contain any breaches that occur.
Detection of viruses is no longer considered sufficient to keep companies and individuals safe. Illumio takes a “zero trust” approach, in which everything is viewed as suspicious, a similar approach to that which is used by the White House. The company operates at the cutting edge of microsegmentation, focusing on protecting cloud datacenters and workloads. With more and more companies moving to the cloud, this approach is crucial.
Illumio also protects endpoints, partnering with big players such as Citrix, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk. A collaboration with Appgate, a Zero Trust secure access company, delivers the industry's first integrated Zero Trust Network Access and Segmentation solution, which can reduce risk across hybrid infrastructure, and proves Illumio's dedication to innovating the space. Additionally, the company announced a Federal Risk and Authorisation Management Program (FedRAMP), which is tailored to assist federal agencies in reducing risk.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$225m
SERIES F
Feb 2019
$65m
SERIES E
Total funding: $562m
Company 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
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Andrew Rubin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Started in Business Development, as an Analyst at VoiceNet Communications, and as a Director at VoiceNet. Worked at Cymtec Systems for over 8 years, promoted from VP of Sales to CEO. Seed Investor in Tory Burch, and Powermat. Current Strategic Advisor to Menlo Security, and Bolt.
PJ Kirner
(Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor)Studied Computer Science at Cornell. Worked as an Engineer Manager for over 6 years at Trilogy. Software Architect at Funkware for over 3 years. Was Principal Systems Engineer at Cluster File Systems. Distinguished Engineer for over 5 years at Juniper Networks. Was CTO of Cymtec Systems.
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