Engineering Intern, Illumio
Architecture Platform
$37.00 - 47 USD per hour
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
$37.00 - 47 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 technical field, with an expected graduation date in Winter 2026 or Spring 2027
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Go, Python or Ruby
- Familiarity with web development technologies (e.g., REST APIs, front-end frameworks) is a plus
- Familiarity with applied AI/ML, scaling ML use of LLMs
- Familiarity with Git or other version control systems
- Exposure to or knowledge of scalability, distributed systems, or cloud computing (could be a part of curriculum / coursework)
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical skills, and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
What the job involves
- This is a 12 week internship program beginning on May 26th 2026 or June 22nd 2026
- Illumio's Architecture/Platform team designs the scalable, secure, and resilient systems that power our cloud-based cybersecurity platform
- As an Architecture Platform Engineering Intern, you’ll work on foundational infrastructure, distributed systems and analytics ( based on rules, statistics and/or ML/AI) that support Illumio’s mission to empower organizations to contain breaches before they become cyber disasters
- This internship offers hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, architectural design patterns, machine learning, and performance optimization
- You’ll collaborate with senior architects and engineers to solve real-world challenges and contribute to the evolution of our platform
- Investigate and implement distributed systems at scale aspects of the cloud-based security analytics platform
- Investigate and implement analytics at scale, using distributed systems concepts and leverage AI/ML to process and surface these to the end users
- Help identify and solve scalability challenges, ensuring the platform can handle increasing loads and larger customer bases
- Understanding of front-end and back-end integration, especially in systems that handle large datasets
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
- Passion and interest in building efficient, highly scalable systems and improving user experience
- Be empowered to take ownership of your own summer project where you provide technical solutions for real world problems. You will get to own the design, implementation, and quality of your work
- Be an active participant of an existing engineering scrum team. Here you’ll learn Agile development and have daily interactions with your peers
- What You'll Gain:
- Hands-on experience designing and building cloud-native architecture at scale
- Exposure to distributed systems, performance optimization, and real-world infrastructure challenges
- Opportunities to contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy
- Ownership of a meaningful summer project with mentorship and support from experienced architects
- Daily collaboration with engineering teams and participation in Agile development workflows
- A deeper understanding of how scalable systems are built to support enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions
- Insight into the latest advancements in machine learning for security, including how AI/ML is applied to enhance threat detection, analytics, and platform intelligence
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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