Staff Performance Engineer

Location: Hybrid work, 3 days (minimum) in officeOnwards Together!

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.  

Illuminate the future with Illumio and join a team that’s passionate about developing cutting-edge security solutions that protect the world's most critical assets. 

Our Team's Vision:

Illumio is looking for a Staff Performance Engineer to join our growing platform and architecture teams. As a performance focused engineer, you will be focused on the creation and refinement of tools to enhance the tooling and automations that deploy and manage Illumio’s on premise and cloud-based infrastructure. This candidate will play a key role in architecting and implementing a stable, scalable and flexible production environment. 

Your Impact: 

• As a software performance engineer, you will be focused on the creation and refinement of tools to enhance the automations that deploy and manage Illumio's on-prem and/or cloud-based infrastructure 

• Define testing strategy, metrics and execute performance related requirements 

• This candidate will play a key role in architecting and implementing a stable, scalable and flexible production environment 

• Be an energetic self-starter with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables 

• Engage with other engineers to review design, code and to share best practices 

• Represent the development team as a performance focused technical leader both vertically and horizontally across engineering and other functions. 

Your Toolkit:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience) 

• At least 7-10 years of professional experience writing/debugging/optimizing scripts or applications for automations, tools, dashboards, and/or alarms 

• Experience working within a large-scale production environment and developing/troubleshooting applications across functional teams 

• Proven success analyzing and optimizing back end technical performance throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle 

• Experience in creating data management scripts and conduct high concurrency, volume/capacity testing 

• Experience with Performance Monitoring / Profiling Tools, OS level, JVM Internals, DB Internals 

• Experience with Performance testing and engineering concepts in System level, UI, Java Applications and DB 

• Experience with programming / test automation languages like Jmeter, Python, pytest, Java 

• Ability to carry out root cause analysis of complex performance issues, analyze results and recommend solutions 

• Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures 

• Worked on cloud base performance testing 

• Developed utilities for automation of daily tasks incorporating latest best practices in perf 

• Experience designing schemas and improving SQL queries for an RDBMS such as  Postgres 

• Demonstrated passion for learning new systems and methodologies combined with advanced troubleshooting skills and superb quality control habits 

• Proven success analyzing and optimizing backend technical performance throughout all stages of the SDLC 

• Familiar with development utilizing a CI/CD model and with creating and leveraging automated unit/acceptance tests 

• Skilled using container orchestration systems (such as Docker or Kubernetes) and version control systems (such as git) 

• A strong focus on security when developing/reviewing code or systems 

• A passion for documentation and a desire to constantly improve knowledge transfer across teams 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

Compensation:

$192,000 USD - $230,000 USD

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws. 

At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage – Health and Dependent Savings Accounts – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave – Voluntary Benefit Programs – Company Sponsored Wellness Program – Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings – Equity Opportunities – Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Employee Incentive Program. #LI-TD1 #LI-HYBRID

Our Commitment: 

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.