Staff Engineer, Illumio
Platform
$179-215k
3+ days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
Open for applications
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$179-215k
3+ 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
- Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree
- 7+ years of experience building distributed & scalable software and systems
- Passion for software development and a willingness to constantly learn, keep up with technological trends, and work in a team setting
- Experience building API-based webservices in a higher-level language and a desire to learn Ruby
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis or similar database and caching technologies
- AWS / Azure /GCP cloud experience:
- Extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level
- Experience with networking and security controls is a plus
- Experience delivering a containerized service running on Kubernetes in public clouds is a plus
- Experience with networking and network security is a plus
What the job involves
- You will build highly scalable and available cloud-based and customer-hosted services for Illumio’s Zero Trust Platform
- You will have complete ownership of some microservices and be responsible for all aspects of design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- You will also contribute to shared platform components and modules
- You will develop platform components and microservices for a distributed, resilient, and highly scalable multi-tenant system
- This system processes real-time network telemetry and computes adaptive security policies for millions of servers, endpoints, and cloud workloads
- You will write code primarily in Ruby, use PostgreSQL and Redis in the data layer, and leverage Kubernetes in public clouds for our infrastructure
- We welcome engineers with backgrounds in any high-level language and a desire to learn
- You will own the entire software development lifecycle for critical features and services
- You will partner with Product Management to refine requirements, own functional, integration, and performance testing to ensure our products are robust and resilient, and work with CloudOps to ensure the successful deployment and customer adoption of your work
- You will develop a deep understanding of the fundamental problems our customers need solved through interaction with stakeholders and peers
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 Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), that is tailored to assist federal agencies in reducing risk.
Kirsty
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$225m
SERIES F
Feb 2019
$65m
SERIES E
Total funding: $552.2m
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 values
- Seek Truth
- Run to challenges
- Bring your best
- Onwards Together
- Leverage differences
- Build trust
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Articles
Leadership
Andrew Rubin
(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
(CTO)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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