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Illumio

Staff Technology Exploration Engineer (Remote)

San Francisco, CA
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What We Are About:

Illumio's Office of the CTO Ideahive team is responsible for keeping Illumio competitive by exploring new technologies, building consensus within Illumio through POC and presentation to executives and engineering on new technologies, and help shape the product roadmap by closely working with Product management. Ideahive team is also responsible for evaluating M&A and early-stage competitive. Ideahive team recently launched the Illumio Labs web portal accompanied by Illumio Labs Github Organization to share insights and best practices to help the security community defend against cyberattacks.

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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. 

What You Will Accomplish:

The Staff Innovation Engineer is a crucial member of Illumio’s Office of the CTO. It is a highly visible role providing the opportunity to work closely with E-Staff and influence Illumio product roadmap and thought leadership. 

  • The ideal candidate has in-depth experience in microservices, Istio, Kubernetes, Docker, RedHat OpenShift, and container orchestration platforms for public cloud provider like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

  • Candidate should have excellent programming, verbal and presentation skills, and be able to independently build POC applications, publish them on GitHub and provide technical support using Slack and GitHub.

  • The candidate will periodically write blogs on Illumio Labs on the  prototypes they built, or technical content and opinion that matters to Illumio customers or container users in general.

  • The candidate will attend technical conferences, meetup, and user groups and share insights about the evolving container security landscape with internal teams and possibly blog externally. 

What You Will Bring:

  • Be the Office of the CTO container and microservices subject matter expert to the internal and external teams.

  • Lead Ideation sessions and be vocal about the latest and greatest in the container market landscape that Illumio should be exploring.

  • Quickly evaluate and prototype potential technical integration to build consensus and executive buy-in.

  • Write blogs on Illumio Labs website accompanied by relevant code on Illumio Labs GitHub repositories, and present using screencast on Illumio Labs website.

  • Expert level coding skills in at least one language like Python, Ruby, or Go.

  • Expert level understanding in some of the following: AWS,  GCP, Azure, Service Mesh, Istio, Kubernetes or similar such platforms.

  • Proficient in managing opensource GitHub repositories for Illumio Labs.

Who We Are:

Illumio enables organizations to realize a future without high-profile breaches by preventing the lateral movement of attackers across any organization. Founded on the principle of least privilege in 2013, Illumio provides visibility and segmentation for endpoints, data centers or clouds. The world’s leading organizations, including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Salesforce, and Oracle NetSuite, trust Illumio to reduce cyber risk. For more information, visit https://www.illumio.com/what-we-do and engage us on LinkedIn and Twitter

Job ID: 4485002002
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
    • Work-From-Home Stipend
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Leave of Absence
    • Paid Holidays
    • Paid Vacation
    • Personal/Sick Days
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Company Equity
    • 401(K)
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Founder led

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