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Illumio · 3 months ago

Staff Engineer - Windows Kernel Driver

positionHQ - Sunnyvale (Office)
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$192K/yr - $230K/yr
date8+ years exp

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. The role involves building a new way to orchestrate Zero Trust segmentation using the Windows Filtering Platform, along with designing critical features and delivering scalable implementations to protect enterprise infrastructure.

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Responsibilities

You will build a new, unprecedented way to orchestrate Zero Trust segmentation down to the application utilizing the Windows Filtering Platform
Use the latest technologies and C++ standard
You will have the opportunity to own and design critical features and subsystems, work out all the details, and defend the design before your peers
You will deliver a rock-solid implementation that is elegant, simple, scalable, stable, secure, and supportable. Our product protects the critical infrastructure of large enterprises. It must work
You will have the opportunity to work with the field organization and key customers to shape this novel product

Qualification

C/C++ programmingWindows kernel debuggingWindows Kernel DriversDistributed software systemsNetworking programmingMulti-threaded applicationsData structuresAlgorithmsDebugging skillsWindows Filtering PlatformFirewalling technologiesBPF/eBPF

Required

Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent degree
8+ years building distributed & scalable software systems
Expertise in programming in C or C++ (11/14/17/20)
Sound networking programming skills at the ip/socket or lower level
Experience with Windows kernel level debugging
Experience developing multi-process and multi-threaded applications
Must have written production quality Windows Kernel Drivers
Familiarity with, and passion for Windows Filtering Platform (WFP), and related technologies
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, networking concepts, and debugging skills

Preferred

Experience with other firewalling technologies such as iptables, nftables, or packet filter
Familiarity with BPF/eBPF

Company

Illumio

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Illumio, the breach containment leader
dateFounded in 2013
location
Sunnyvale, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
http://www.illumio.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (44)
2024 (26)
2023 (21)
2022 (12)
2021 (19)
2020 (24)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$557.5M
Key Investors
Thoma BravoJ.P. Morgan Asset ManagementGeneral Catalyst
2021-06-23Series F· $225M
2019-02-07Series E· $65M
2017-06-07Series D· $125M

Leadership Team

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Andrew Rubin
CEO & Founder
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Anup Singh
Chief Financial Officer
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