Staff Software Engineer - job 2 of 2

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:

As a Senior Performance Engineer, you'll be part of the Performance and Scale team. In collaboration with the team, you will explore performance of various product capabilities, automate performance monitoring of software and infrastructure, measure/analyze/report performance and capacity metrics and contribute to automation framework and tools development.

The Impact You Will Make:

• Design and deliver Performance asks of large scopes with high confidence

• Collaborate with technical leads and identify product and architectural issues

• Develop tools to measure & monitor performance and identify bottlenecks in various Illumio products

• Lead Infrastructure and application performance tuning

• Distill volume data, analyze performance results, and diagnose performance problems

• Drive Capacity estimating, modeling, and planning

• Mentor and guide team members

• Contribute to resolution of Performance and Scale related production

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• Experience in performance engineering for enterprise software products

• Experience building and leveraging tooling to explore and find scalability limits of distributed software systems

• Advanced knowledge of Linux/Windows based systems and tools

• Strong Database fundamentals spanning one or more of RDBMS, NoSQL

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages like C++, Ruby, Python, Scala

• Understanding of Distributed Systems and RESTful APIs

• Understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts

• Experience with telemetry tools (e.g. Splunk, Elk or Time Series databases)

• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale software backends (e.g., APIs, high volume data pipelines, )

• Ability to model configurations by analyzing software systems, business applications and their communication patterns

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 #LI-KD1 #LI-HYBRID