Director of Engineering, Illumio

Kubernetes

$250-300k

Plus Equity

REST API
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)

Illumio

Automated enforcement against cyberattacks

Job no longer available

Illumio

Automated enforcement against cyberattacks

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSCyber SecurityAutomation

Job no longer available

$250-300k

Plus Equity

REST API
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSCyber SecurityAutomation

Company mission

To enable every organization to realize a future without high-profile breaches.

Role

Who you are

  • BS Computer Science or equivalent
  • 10 years’ experience planning, designing, developing and delivering software
  • 6 years’ experience as a People Manager in a software development organization having managed a range of experience; from new grads to highly experienced developers
  • Must have experience in building Cloud product. Even better if its in the Cloud Security space
  • Must have an understanding of the design of good user interfaces and visualization of complex systems, delivering simple to use products
  • Must have a successful track record of leadership of an engineering organization, hiring, enabling and empowering high-performing teams
  • Hands-on experience having managed people and process for agile development, with a preference for scrum
  • Must have significant technical experience in delivering applications based on distributed systems. Should have worked with RESTful web services, high-scale SaaS applications, and public clouds. Has taken software products from inception to customer delivery
  • Significant experience with public cloud APIs and services related to securing public cloud entities
  • Solid understanding and experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD, testing automation and production telemetry
  • Has excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

What the job involves

  • In this role, the successful candidate will lead significant product development and delivery efforts for a new Cloud product, across the full breadth of the tech stack from Platform & DevOps to Back-End systems and the UI development
  • You will deliver roadmap for the new CloudSecure product
  • You will be responsible for the growth and development of the top-notch team that delivers this capability, partnering with senior technical leads to achieve this
  • You will need to understand all aspects of the product and technology, so you can work with people across engineering, product management and other functions to make decisions critical to features and releases
  • You will be responsible for defining and driving a rapid development, release, measurement, and iteration process needed to advance a new product and to get to feature completeness and quality
  • You will need to be decisive in the face of ambiguity, balance business concerns with release deadlines and be accountable for delivering on-time releases
  • You will be part of the technical leadership community at Illumio that plays a critical role in product planning and innovation, working closely with senior executives to develop business milestones and resource requirements, influence our long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire a talented team of engineers and ultimately enable us to deliver innovative new products that drive our market leadership position

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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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

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: $557m

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

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.

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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