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: 5 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Our Team's Vision:

Our Engineering team has established a culture based on thought leadership, independence, and responsibility. This powerful dynamic drives us forward as we work to make the digital world a safer place.

Those who join us represent the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation and work on a technology stack that ranges from operating systems to distributed applications to UI and visualization. Together, we will continue to build world-class products—driven 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 deliver roadmap for the new CloudSecure product.
You will be responsible for the growth and development of the top-notch team that delivers this capability, partnering with senior technical leads to achieve this.
You will need to understand all aspects of the product and technology, so you can work with people across engineering, product management and other functions to make decisions critical to features and releases.
You will be responsible for defining and driving a rapid development, release, measurement, and iteration process needed to advance a new product and to get to feature completeness and quality.
You will need to be decisive in the face of ambiguity, balance business concerns with release deadlines and be accountable for delivering on-time releases.
You will be part of the technical leadership community at Illumio that plays a critical role in product planning and innovation, working closely with senior executives to develop business milestones and resource requirements, influence our long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire a talented team of engineers and ultimately enable us to deliver innovative new products that drive our market leadership position.

Your Toolkit:

BS Computer Science or equivalent
10 years’ experience planning, designing, developing and delivering software.
6 years’ experience as a People Manager in a software development organization having managed a range of experience; from new grads to highly experienced developers
Must have experience in building Cloud product. Even better if its in the Cloud Security space.
Must have an understanding of the design of good user interfaces and visualization of complex systems, delivering simple to use products
Must have a successful track record of leadership of an engineering organization, hiring, enabling and empowering high-performing teams.
Hands-on experience having managed people and process for agile development, with a preference for scrum.
Must have significant technical experience in delivering applications based on distributed systems. Should have worked with RESTful web services, high-scale SaaS applications, and public clouds. Has taken software products from inception to customer delivery.
Significant experience with public cloud APIs and services related to securing public cloud entities
Solid understanding and experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD, testing automation and production telemetry.
Has excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

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Our Commitment

Illumio 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.

All 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. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Illumio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Director, Engineering