Backend Software Engineer

Onwards Together!

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.

Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

Location: Sunnyvale, California 
 

Our Team's Vision

Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity. 

When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You'll work with a cutting-edge technology stack that spans operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools.  

We're shaping the future of cybersecurity. And together, we will continue to build world-class products—led by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history. 

Your Impact:

You will design your service, develop features after solidifying the design with peer review process with take it to production quality

You will primarily write code in Java, Python

Working knowledge of Kubernetes orchestration or willing to learn

Own critical features and subsystems and own the entire software development lifecycle, from clarifying requirements to ensuring their successful deployment and usage by customers

Owning service / feature operational aspects with necessary telemetry and metrics for identifying production issue quickly

Own code quality, as we do early developer testing and functional/integration testing to ensure we build robust and resilient products

Willing to partner with Product management for requirements clarification, scoping and locking

Your Toolkit:

Bachelor’s or Master's in computer science or equivalent degree. 

3+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems

Passion for software development, willing to constantly learn, keeping up with technological trends, and working in a team setting

AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience

Experience with networking and security controls is a plus

Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, Python

REST API client experience

CloudFormation, Terraform are nice to have

Working knowledge of spring or similar eco systems

Knowledge of Kubernetes and docker containers is good to have

Gang of four design patterns