Staff Engineer

The role

You will own quality across a multi-cloud micro-segmentation platform protecting workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will build automation, validate performance and scalability, and ensure platform resilience through functional testing and chaos engineering.

What you will do

• Design and execute functional, integration, and end-to-end test strategies
• Build and maintain scalable API, UI, and end-to-end automation frameworks
• Validate cloud security workflows across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Partner with engineering and product teams to define acceptance criteria
• Own defect triage, root cause analysis, and release readiness
• Design and execute large-scale performance and scalability tests
• Build automated performance benchmarks and regression suites
• Validate system behavior under stress, peak load, and endurance scenarios
• Design and execute chaos engineering experiments
• Own quality gates within CI/CD and improve automation reliability

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent degree
• 9+ years building automation for SaaS or cloud-native distributed systems
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Pytest, or equivalent
• Experience designing automation for APIs, UI, and distributed microservices
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking and security constructs
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST APIs, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures
• Ability to debug application code and work closely with developers

Nice to have

• Master’s degree
• Experience with performance and load testing tools such as k6, Locust, JMeter, or Gatling
• Experience profiling application performance and identifying bottlenecks across distributed systems
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with chaos engineering tools such as Litmus, Gremlin, or Chaos Monkey
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
• Understanding of network security, segmentation, firewall policies, and cloud networking
• Experience testing enterprise-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms

Before you apply

• Job offer is contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls

About the company

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. The company provides a breach containment platform that identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments.