Sr. Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Security
Sunnyvale, California - · 4+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California -
About the role
- Illumio is seeking a Sr. Member of Technical Staff for Cloud Security to develop containerized microservices for a distributed multi-tenant system.
- The role involves processing real-time events and network telemetry from multiple public clouds to deliver insights and security recommendations.
- Candidates will own the entire software development lifecycle and mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns.
Responsibilities
- Develop containerized (micro) services for a distributed multi-tenant system that process data, real-time events, and network telemetry from multiple public clouds.
- Design services, work out details, defend the design/architecture before peers, and deliver implementation.
- Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow and become productive team members.
- Write code primarily in Go and work with data pipelines using SQL or other types of interfaces.
- Own critical features and subsystems, managing the entire software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment.
- Own operational aspects of the system to understand how to write better, more supportable software.
- Own code quality through early developer testing and functional/integration testing.
- Partner with Product Management to review and refine requirements.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer problems through interaction with stakeholders and peers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree
- 4+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
- Extensively used AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms at the API/programming level
- Experience in Go and SQL
- REST API client experience
- General TCP/IP networking knowledge
- Unix/Linux programming environment experience
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree
- Experience with networking and security controls
- Experience delivering a containerized service on a Kubernetes-based platform
- CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible experience
Workplace
- 5 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA headquarters
Skills
- Go
- SQL
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- REST API
- CloudFormation
- Terraform
- Ansible
- TCP/IP
- Unix/Linux