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Sr. Engineering Manager - Full Stack

Lead high-performing engineering teams at Illumio, driving the development of cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions in a dynamic environment.

Location
HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
senior
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 2 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Role intensity

20% coding — mostly leadership/strategy

Requirements

Experience
6+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.

Joblaze summary

The Sr. Engineering Manager at Illumio oversees a team of over nine engineers, ensuring the end-to-end delivery of high-performance cloud-based systems. This role requires expertise in distributed systems and cloud services, with a strong focus on technologies like Java, Spring Boot, and Python. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in managing teams and driving engineering excellence, making it suitable for seasoned professionals in the tech industry. Illumio's engineering culture emphasizes innovation and collaboration, positioning the team at the forefront of cybersecurity solutions.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Illumio's careers page October 29, 2026.
  • Python appears in 49.3% of 223 comparable senior fullstack roles in United States; Jenkins appears in 0.4% of 223 comparable senior fullstack roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Sr. Engineering Manager - Full Stack role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in HQ - Sunnyvale (Office).
How much experience is required?
At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Sr. Engineering Manager - Full Stack role.
Where is the role based?
Illumio is hiring for this position in HQ - Sunnyvale (Office).
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, BigQuery, GCP, Git, Golang.
What seniority level is this role?
Illumio targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Sr. Engineering Manager - Full Stack role at Illumio.

From the original posting

Location: 5 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Our Team's Vision:

Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You'll work with a cutting-edge technology stack that spans operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools.

We're shaping the future of cybersecurity. And together, we will continue to build world-class products—led by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history.

Your Impact:

  • Manage high-performing teams of 9+ engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery

    • Manage managers as well

  • Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions.

  • Excellent stakeholder and program management skills

  • Establish best engineering practices and operation excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics

  • Interact with other Illumio engineering teams for getting and sharing expertise, as well as aligning on dependencies and deliverables.

  • Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.

  • Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions within the established architectural guidelines.

  • Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products

  • Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.

  • Participating in organizational events like hackathon/demo days etc.

  • Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.

  • Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow.

 

Your Toolkit:

  • 6+ years' experience in building products with a focus on cloud-based high-performance systems

  • 7+ years' experience in leading and managing high performance teams

  • Have led a team of 9+ engineers/mangers and owned accountability of E2E delivery

  • Excellent stakeholder and program management

  • Extensive experience building distributed systems and cloud services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Python

  • Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence

  • Knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP

  • Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery, RedShift.

  • Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs)

  • Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years

  • Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like Azure, AWS or GCP

  • Good knowledge and experience with developing REST based APIs and integrations

  • Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

  • Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit/Spock/Jest etc) and code quality control platforms

  • Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps

  • Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies

  • Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.

  • Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.

  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.

  • Well versed with Agile (Scrum) methodology

#LI-TD1 #LI-ONSITE

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

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