Engineering Intern, Illumio
Core PPM Platform, Summer 2025
Compensation: $ 37 USD - $ 47 USD
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
Open for applications
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Compensation: $ 37 USD - $ 47 USD
More information about location
3-5 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 bachelors Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field degree-seeking program with an expected graduation date in Winter 2025/Spring 2026
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Python, Go, or similar)
- Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and an understanding of horizontal scalability and high-availability systems is a plus
- Familiarity with Git or other version control systems
- Basic understanding of Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines is desirable
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical skills, and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- A passion for learning and continuous improvement
What the job involves
- This is a 12 week internship program beginning on May 27th 2025 or June 23rd 2025. This internship is based in Sunnyvale, California, and will require a hybrid work schedule
- 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
- Work on breaking out the Core PCE into microservices to improve scalability, flexibility, and maintainability
- Learn and apply best practices in microservices architecture, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and modularity
- Contribute to designing and implementing solutions for horizontal scalability to allow the platform to efficiently handle larger and more diverse workloads
- Assist in optimizing the system’s performance under varying load conditions, ensuring consistent responsiveness and reliability
- Work on enabling zero-downtime upgrades and continuous delivery (CD) processes for the platform to improve system uptime and reliability
- Help automate deployment and rollback strategies to ensure that updates can be applied with minimal disruption to users
- Gain hands-on experience with containerization tools (such as Docker) and orchestration platforms (such as Kubernetes) to support microservices
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and propose solutions for scaling, reliability, and performance
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: $551.3m
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
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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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