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Sr. Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Security

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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

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