Illumio

Staff Engineer

Illumio$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent; Master's preferred
  • 9+ years in automation for SaaS or cloud-native systems
  • Strong coding skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar
  • Experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright)
  • Hands-on with AWS, Azure, or GCP including their security features
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute functional, integration, and end-to-end test strategies
  • Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks for APIs and UI
  • Validate cloud security workflows across major cloud platforms
  • Conduct large-scale performance testing simulating enterprise environments
  • Implement chaos engineering experiments to test resilience
  • Drive integration testing across multiple platform services
  • Enhance CI/CD quality gates and automation reliability

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment focusing on innovation
  • Access to cutting-edge cloud security technology
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Engaged team culture in a leading tech location
Full Job Description
Location: 5 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Your Impact:

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join the CloudSecure team and help deliver enterprise-grade cloud security at scale. You'll own quality across a multi-cloud micro-segmentation platform that protects workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP-working across the full stack from cloud synchronization and policy computation to APIs, UI, distributed services, and large-scale infrastructure.

This role goes beyond functional testing. You'll build automation, validate performance and scalability at enterprise scale, improve release confidence, and ensure the platform remains resilient under real-world production conditions.
  • Product Quality & Automation (50%)
  • Design and execute comprehensive functional, integration, and end-to-end test strategies for CloudSecure features
  • Build and maintain scalable API, UI, and end-to-end automation frameworks
  • Validate cloud security workflows including resource discovery, policy computation, flow ingestion, visualization, and compliance across AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Partner with engineering and product teams to define acceptance criteria, improve testability, and drive shift-left quality practices
  • Own defect triage, root cause analysis, and release readiness for your feature areas
  • Quality Engineering & Infrastructure (50%)
  • Design and execute large-scale performance and scalability tests simulating enterprise customer environments
  • Thousands of workloads
  • Hundreds of VPCs/VNETs
  • Millions of flow records
  • Large policy and inventory datasets
  • Build automated performance benchmarks and regression suites to detect latency, throughput, and resource utilization regressions
  • Validate system behavior under stress, peak load, and long-running endurance scenarios
  • Design and execute chaos engineering experiments including:
  • Database failovers
  • Kafka failures and lag
  • Network partitions
  • Cloud API throttling
  • Pod failures and OOM scenarios
  • Validate graceful degradation, fault tolerance, recovery, and high availability across distributed services
  • Own quality gates within CI/CD and continuously improve automation reliability, execution time, and release confidence
  • Drive cross-module integration testing across User Console, CloudSecure services, Policy Compute Engine, and supporting platform services
  • Develop tooling that enables developers to self-serve test environments, test data, and automation execution
Your Toolkit:
  • Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent degree. Master's degree a plus
  • 9+ years building automation for SaaS or cloud-native distributed systems
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar
  • Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Pytest, or equivalent
  • Experience designing automation for APIs, UI, and distributed microservices
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking and security constructs (VPCs, VNets, Security Groups, Firewalls, IAM)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST APIs, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures
  • Ability to debug application code and work closely with developers to identify root causes-not just report failures

Nice to Have:
  • Experience with performance and load testing tools such as k6, Locust, JMeter, or Gatling
  • Experience profiling application performance and identifying bottlenecks across distributed systems
  • Familiarity with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
  • Experience with chaos engineering tools such as Litmus, Gremlin, or Chaos Monkey
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
  • Understanding of network security, segmentation, firewall policies, and cloud networking
  • Experience testing enterprise-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms


This 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.

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About Illumio

Illumio is a cybersecurity company that provides software for securing enterprise computing environments. The company was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Illumio's software uses micro-segmentation to protect against cyber threats by creating security policies that restrict access to sensitive data and applications. The company's software is used by a wide range of clients, including financial institutions, healthcare providers, and government agencies. Illumio has received numerous awards for its innovative approach to cybersecurity, including being named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2016.
Learn more about Illumio
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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