Senior Engineer, Illumio
Cloud, Observability Lead
$161-185k
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
Be an early applicant
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$161-185k
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
- Proven experience in a DevOps or observability-focused role, concentrating on production service management and operational excellence
- Prior experience working with microservices in a production environment is a must
- At least 5+ years of experience managing large numbers of instances in public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc
- Strong expertise in observability practices and tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Experience enhancing logging, reducing log noise, and integrating critical metrics into services
- Proficiency in building and managing dashboards and monitoring tools
- Expertise in setting up and managing PagerDuty alerts, with on-call rotation and escalation management knowledge
- Strong collaboration skills to work closely with engineering teams, advocating for observability best practices
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern CI/CD processes
- Automation scripting or coding experience (Python, Go, or similar)
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail in managing complex systems
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Engineer for our Cloud team with a strong focus on observability to join our engineering team as the Observability Lead
- In this role, you will champion initiatives to enhance our production systems'the reliability, visibility, and operational readiness of our production systems
- You will collaborate closely with engineers to catalog services, improve logging practices, reduce log noise, and integrate additional metrics across all applications
- Additionally, you will develop runbooks, build dashboards, and manage PagerDuty configurations and escalation workflows
- Serve as an advocate for observability practices within the engineering team, promoting operational best practices and reliability
- Catalog all production services, documenting critical details for operational visibility and management
- Collaborate with engineering teams to develop and implement a comprehensive observability plan, ensuring metrics are integrated into all services
- Enhance logging practices where needed, reduce log noise, and ensure meaningful insights are captured
- Add and refine metrics across applications to improve operational visibility and performance tracking
- Develop detailed runbooks for critical alerts and incidents, facilitating efficient response processes
- Build and maintain dashboards that offer insights into SLAs, performance, and business metrics for engineering and product teams
- Set up and manage PagerDuty alerts, define on-call duties, and establish incident escalation paths
- Continuously improve alerting, logging, and monitoring processes to enhance service reliability and reduce unnecessary noise
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.
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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
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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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