# Sr. Staff Engineer at Illumio

- Company: Illumio
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and a16z.
- Company website: http://www.illumio.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $225K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/illumio/a20d6392-417c-45f9-afc3-b697182b6e4a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/illumio-sr-staff-engineer/

## About the role

You 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. You will design and architecture the platform and subsystems, work out all of the details, defend the design/architecture before your peers, and deliver a rock-solid implementation.

## What they're looking for

- Extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level
- Experience with networking and security controls is a benefit
- Our platform is K8s based so experience delivering onto a containerized platform is desired
- Language requirements
- Experience in Go and SQL
- REST API client experience

Tags: Engineering