Jobs Companies Illumio Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform

About this Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform role at Illumio

Illumio · Onsite · HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)

Onwards Together!

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: 5 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Our Team's Vision:

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.

Your Impact:

  • Manage high-performing teams of 9+ engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery

    • Manage managers as well

  • Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions.

  • Excellent stakeholder and program management skills

  • Establish best engineering practices and operation excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics

  • Interact with other Illumio engineering teams for getting and sharing expertise, as well as aligning on dependencies and deliverables.

  • Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.

  • Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions within the established architectural guidelines.

  • Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products

  • Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.

  • Participating in organizational events like hackathon/demo days etc.

  • Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.

  • Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow.

 

Your Toolkit:

  • 6+ years' experience in building products with a focus on cloud-based high-performance systems

  • 7+ years' experience in leading and managing high performance teams

  • Have led a team of 9+ engineers/mangers and owned accountability of E2E delivery

  • Excellent stakeholder and program management

  • Extensive experience building distributed systems and cloud services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Python

  • Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence

  • Knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP

  • Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery, RedShift.

  • Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs)

  • Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years

  • Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like Azure, AWS or GCP

  • Good knowledge and experience with developing REST based APIs and integrations

  • Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

  • Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit/Spock/Jest etc) and code quality control platforms

  • Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps

  • Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies

  • Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.

  • Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.

  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.

  • Well versed with Agile (Scrum) methodology

#LI-TD1 #LI-ONSITE

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.

Our Commitment

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.

All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official E-Signature document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Illumio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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How this Engineering Manager salary compares

This role pays $256,500/yrin line with the typical range for Engineering Manager roles.

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Typical range $194,825–$273,125/yr, from 18 comparable Engineering Manager listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Engineering Manager salary insights →

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