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Sr. Engineering Manager, Core Products
Illumio · Sunnyvale, CA · Posted 9 days ago
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10+ yrs expJavaGoPythonKubernetesDockerKafkaAWSAzure
Lead backend engineers building AI-powered platform capabilities, including agentic workflows and RAG architectures, for a cybersecurity company's enterprise SaaS products across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Lead and grow a team of backend engineers building highly scalable cloud services and AI-powered platform capabilities.
- Drive technical strategy and execution for distributed systems, platform APIs, and AI-enabled services.
- Partner closely with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Data Science teams to deliver intelligent platform experiences.
- Define architecture for large-scale microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud-native applications.
- Help shape Illumio's AI roadmap, including agentic workflows, LLM integrations, RAG architectures, and AI infrastructure.
- Establish engineering best practices around reliability, observability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
- Mentor engineering managers and senior engineers while fostering a culture of ownership and innovation.
- Drive quarterly planning, staffing strategy, technical roadmaps, and architectural reviews.
- Ensure successful delivery of highly available services running across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
- 10+ years building distributed and scalable backend systems.
- 3+ years leading software engineering teams and engineering leads/managers.
- Strong experience in Java, Go, Python, or equivalent backend technologies.
- Deep expertise with microservices, APIs, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
- Experience building high-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures leveraging technologies such as Kafka.
- Practical understanding of modern AI systems, including LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, model serving, prompt engineering, and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Experience partnering with Product Management to define strategy and deliver customer-facing capabilities.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across organizations.
- Experience operating services in production with a focus on telemetry, monitoring, and reliability.
- Experience leading AI Platform, ML Infrastructure, or Agentic Systems teams.
- Hands-on knowledge of vector databases, inference optimization, model evaluation frameworks, and AI observability platforms such as Langfuse.
- Security or cybersecurity domain experience.
- Experience building enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
- Familiarity with Terraform, cloud automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
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