Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Ruby or Python)

Job Description

Open to Remote Work

This role can be remote from anywhere in the United States. Our HQ is located in Sunnyvale, CA and in a future (Post Covid-19) world, some travel to HQ will be required once a quarter.

Who We Are:

Illumio, the pioneer and market leader of Zero Trust segmentation, prevents breaches from becoming cyber disasters. Illumio protects critical applications and valuable digital assets with proven segmentation technology purpose-built for the Zero Trust security model. Illumio ransomware mitigation and segmentation solutions see risk, isolate attacks, and secure data across cloud-native apps, hybrid and multi-clouds, data centers, and endpoints, enabling the world’s leading organizations to strengthen their cyber resiliency and reduce risk.

What We Are About:

Illumio’s mission is to enable every organization to realize a future without high-profile breaches. We provide intelligent visibility and control to separate and protect high-value assets for the world’s leading organizations. Our engineering, security, and product teams have 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 security 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.

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The Team You Will Join:

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.

Join our growing core team, responsible for building the Policy Compute Engine, the central brain of Illumio Core and Illumio Edge. We are a small, high-functioning team that empowers engineers to innovate and build a world class product. We ask for ownership at all levels of the organization rather than rely on a centralized management body. We primarily write code in Ruby and use PostgreSQL and Redis in the data layer. We integrate with Docker, Kubernetes/Openshift, and cloud platforms. We welcome people with backgrounds in other languages and technology stacks along with a desire to learn.

The Impact You Will Make:

• Write non-blocking, concurrent code for a distributed system that is deployed in our SaaS, inside the datacenter, and across geographic boundaries.
• Design critical features and subsystems, work out all of the details, defend the design before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation.
• Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns to help them grow as engineers and become productive members of the team.
• Contribute high quality, scalable code to the Illumio Policy Compute Engine, running in the Illumio SaaS and customer data centers.
• Own critical features and subsystems within the Policy Compute Engine application.
• Drive the entire software development lifecycle, from clarifying requirements to ensuring their successful deployment and usage by customers.
• Provide leadership around building robust features and applications through code reviews, design reviews, and evangelizing coding best practices.
• Collaborate closely with a strong cross-functional team with the goal of building a world class product.

What You Bring:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, operating systems and networking concepts, and debugging skills.
• Experience building large, distributed, and scalable software systems.
• Experience with cloud application design and development, webservices, and REST APIs.
• Experience with higher level programming languages (e.g. Ruby, Python) and/or demonstrated ability to learn new languages.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL).
• Experience with container environments such as Kubernetes/Openshift is highly desirable.
• Experience building security policy management software is a plus

The Benefits/Perks You Will Enjoy:

• Generous vacation/sick leave
• Health, Vision, and Dental with HSA or FSA, EAP
• Paid Holidays
• Gym reimbursement
• 401(k)
• Equity
• Life & AD&D, Long & Short-term disability, EAP program
• Continuous learning program through our extensive internal LMS and personal Linkedin Learning access

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