Sr. Software Engineer - Backend Java

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, 5 days in office

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.

• You will be developing containerized (micro) services and the associated components for a distributed multi-tenant system that process data and real time events and systems/asset/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.

• You will mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team.

• You will primarily write code in Java (using spring boot framework) and work with data pipelines using Kafka/SQL or other types of interfaces.

• We leverage Kubernetes for service infrastructure platform. We welcome people with backgrounds in other languages and technology stacks along with a desire 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.

• Own 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 very usable and supportable software, providing delightful experience to our customers.

• Own quality in all aspects of the development process, as we do early developer testing and functional/integration as well as performance testing to ensure we build robust and resilient products.

• Partner with Product Management to review and refine requirements that exceed our customers’ expectations.

• Develop deep understanding of the fundamental problems our customers need solved through interaction with stakeholders and peers.

• Bachelor’sin computer science or equivalent degree. Master’s degree a plus

• 5+ 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:

• Extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level

• Experience with networking and security controls is a plus

• Our platform is K8s based so experience delivering a containerized serviced is desired

• Language requirements

• Experience in Java and spring boot or Golang

• REST API client experience

• Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible are nice to have

• General TCP/IP networking knowledge

• Unix/Linux programming environment experience

Compensation:

$161,000 - $189,000 USD

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws.

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