Engineering Intern, Illumio
Cloud Security, Data Ingestion & Analytics, 12 Week Internship
$37.00 - $47.00 USD per hour
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
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Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$37.00 - $47.00 USD per hour
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
- Currently enrolled in a full time Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with an expected graduation date in Winter 2026/Spring2027
- Strong coding skills in Golang, Python, or Java, and an understanding of data structures and distributed system design
- Curiosity about AI applications in cybersecurity, graph analytics, and streaming data pipelines
- Familiarity with Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- A growth mindset, strong analytical thinking, and enthusiasm for tackling scale challenges
What the job involves
- This is a 12 week internship program beginning on May 26th 2026 or June 22nd 2026
- As an intern, you’ll work at the intersection of large-scale data engineering, distributed systems, and cybersecurity analytics, contributing to systems that help secure the world’s most critical workloads
- Design, implement, and test features within large-scale data ingestion and analytics pipelines that handle streaming telemetry across multi-cloud environments
- Contribute to the AI-powered Security Graph, experimenting with data models and graph queries that enrich cloud visibility
- Collaborate with engineers to optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across Kafka, Neo4j, and Postgres-backed services
- Develop dashboards and automation for data health, ingestion latency, and observability metrics
- Explore new ways to extract insights from flow data, using data lakes and analytics frameworks to uncover behavioral patterns
- Document and share technical findings and impact metrics with engineering and product teams to support data-driven decision-making
- What You'll Gain:
- Experience operating in multi-cloud, petabyte-scale environments that power real-time cybersecurity analytics
- Hands-on exposure to streaming data systems, graph databases, and data lake architectures
- Mentorship from engineers building one of the industry’s most advanced cloud visibility and segmentation platforms
- A capstone opportunity to design, implement, and demo a project that has a measurable impact on data scale, efficiency, or insight generation
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
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: $564.5m
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
(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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