About the role
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. Our Team's Vision: Our Engineering team is shaping the future of cybersecurity. We thrive on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, fostering a culture of innovation that propels us forward in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. As a leader in Zero Trust Segmentation, we are redefining security for a world facing unprecedented cyber threats. You’ll work with a highly scalable SaaS service built using cloud-native technologies while simultaneously shipping the solution on-premises. Our guiding philosophy in Engineering is to get things right through practicing disciplined engineering, focusing, not cutting corners, and of course having fun while we are at it. We believe in enabling ownership at all levels of the organization and empowering teams. If you thrive in this culture, come join us! Your Impact: This role combines hands-on contributions and managerial
responsibilities. In this role, you will be at the center of important product and technology initiatives, and therefore
the role has significant visibility and responsibility as well as tremendous upside. You will lead
the team responsible for the development of platform services, define and execute platform engineering initiatives, and manage the integration of the application with the infrastructure. You will work with leaders across engineering, operations, product management, and other functions to make decisions critical to features, product releases, and the overall evolution of the platform. You will ensure the correctness, scalability, and modularity of the platform architecture and implementation, as well as its compliance with regulatory standards and security best practices. You will grow and develop the top-notch team that delivers these capabilities, partnering with senior technical leads and cross functional leaders. You will define, manage, and enforce milestone gates to ensure feature completeness and release quality while balancing business concerns with release deadlines, delivering on-time releases to some of the largest and most demanding enterprise customers. As part of the technical leadership community at Illumio, you will play a critical role in product planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business milestones and resource
