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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.\nRecognized 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.\nOur Team's Vision:\nOur 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.\nWhen 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.\nWe'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.\nYour Impact:\nYou will be developing containerized (micro) services for a distributed multi-tenant system that process data and real time events and network telemetry from multiple public clouds to provide real time insights, visibility, and security recommendations to customers so they can identify and minimize risk in the cloud.\n\nYou will design your service, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation.\n\nYou will also mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team.\n\nYou will primarily write code in Go and work with data pipeline using SQL or other types of interfaces. 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We welcome people with backgrounds in other languages and technology stacks along with a desire to learn.\n\nOwn critical features and subsystems and own the entire software development lifecycle, from clarifying requirements to ensuring their successful deployment and usage by customers.\n\nOwn operational aspects of the system, being on the front lines and experiencing first-hand the challenges of operating such a system, will make you understand how to write better more supportable software, like no other experience.\n\nOwn code quality, as we do early developer testing and functional/integration testing to ensure we build robust and resilient products.\n\nPartner with Product Management to review, refine requirement that exceed our customers’ expectations.\n\nDevelop deep understanding of the fundamental problems our customers need solved through interaction with stakeholders and peers.\n\nYour Toolkit:\nBachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree. Master’s degree a plus\n\n8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems\n\nPassion for software development, willing to constantly learn, keeping up with technological trends, and working in a team setting\n\nAWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience:\nExtensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level\n\nExperience with networking and security controls is a plus\n\nOur platform is K8s based so experience delivering a containerized serviced is desired\n\nLanguage requirements\nExperience in Go and SQL\n\nREST API client experience\n\nCloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have\n\nGeneral TCP/IP networking knowledge\n\nUnix/Linux programming environment experience\n\n#LI-KD1 #LI-ONSITE\nThis position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.\nThis position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.\nOur Commitment\nIllumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.\nAll official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official E-Signature document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. 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