Remote Principal Engineer

Summary

Join Illumio's Office of the CTO Technology Exploration team as a Technology Exploration Engineer, where you will explore different technology areas of interest to the business, synthesize information, communicate results, and influence product direction. This role requires strong technical skills, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent job-related experience
• 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems
• Be the Office of the CTO public cloud subject matter expert to internal and external teams, with expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP and related technologies like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc. with a specific focus on networking and security
• The ability to summarize and present research clearly at different levels to the extended Illumio executive team to drive innovation within the company forward
• Excellent programming, verbal, and presentation skills, and be able to independently build POC applications, publish them on GitHub, and provide technical support using Slack and GitHub
• Lead Ideation sessions and be vocal about the latest and greatest in the public cloud technology landscape that Illumio should be exploring
• Be flexible and open to exploring new technologies and opportunities. We value the ability to learn quickly, with little supervision (but with support of peers) and value the willingness to try and excel at new things even outside one’s technology comfort zone
• Quickly evaluate and prototype potential technical integrations to build consensus and executive buy-in
• Write blogs on Illumio Labs website accompanied by relevant code on Illumio Labs GitHub repositories and demonstrate using screencast on Illumio Labs website
• Expert level coding skills in at least one language, such as Python, Ruby, or Go
• Expert level understanding in some of the following: Service mesh (like Istio), container orchestration (like Kubernetes) etc
• Proficient in managing opensource GitHub repositories for Illumio Labs

Responsibilities

• Answer important questions about the direction and limits of technology
• Research and explore the technology space to answer questions to the satisfaction of stakeholders and CTO
• Create proof of concepts, demos, and presentations as appropriate
• Turn ambiguous questions into technical clarity, direction, and inspiration for the company
• Lead a technology exploration area, demonstrating technical leadership and organization skills to drive a cross-functional team to deliver quarterly insights in that technical area
• Write external blogs on Illumio Labs on the prototypes built or technical content and opinion that matters to Illumio customers or external technical users in general
• Attend technical conferences, meetups, and user groups, and share summaries and clear insights from those meetings with internal teams

Benefits

• 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