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# Sr. Staff Data Engineer at Illumio

- **Company:** [Illumio](https://feeny.ai/companies/illumio)
- **Location:** HQ / Sunnyvale, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/illumio/4adc6861-0899-42b8-adf1-be75d766cae1

## Job description

Onwards Together! Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.

Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running. Location: 4 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Our Team's Vision: Our IT team is the trusted technology partner that empowers Illumio to innovate, scale, and lead. We create seamless digital experiences, deliver reliable and secure applications, unlock the value of data, and enable every employee to do their best work from anywhere. By combining enterprise applications, data and AI services, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, and workplace technologies, we provide the foundation that powers business growth and operational excellence. We are innovators, builders, and stewards of technology tasked with driving automation, accelerating decision-making, safeguarding critical assets, and continually advancing the capabilities that help Illumio achieve its mission.

Your Impact:

- Own and support Fabric AI initiatives in support of Organization wide projects using our Fabric Data Warehouse. Own and support enterprise data pipelines, Microsoft Fabric and Power BI solutions, and analytics operations. This role expands engineering capacity during the Domo-to-Fabric PowerBI migration and provides durable production support, data-quality management, report development, governance execution, and business enablement across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Customer Success, and Engineering.
- Design, build, test, maintain, and monitor Fabric Data Agents supporting business AI initiatives.
- Design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and support Fabric data pipelines, transformations, semantic models, and Power BI solutions.
- Triage pipeline failures, report defects, refresh issues, access problems, and data-quality incidents; perform root-cause analysis and maintain runbooks.
- Migrate business dashboards and datasets into governed Fabric and Power BI solutions.
- Build reports and validate measures and metrics across connected dashboards and source systems.
- Administer workspaces, permissions, deployment processes, service principals, monitoring, and lifecycle controls.
- Partner with business functions on requirements, data mapping, testing, release readiness, documentation, training, and adoption.
- Contribute to Analytics Center of Excellence standards, reusable patterns, governance, cataloging, and platform planning.

Your Toolkit:

- 6+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, BI development, or a related enterprise data role.
- Strong SQL, Python, PySpark and hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.Experience building and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines, transformations, validations, semantic models, and production reporting.
- Working knowledge of Fabric and Power BI security, permissions, workspace design, and deployment practices.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft AI ecosystem and Fabric Data Agent architecture, design and solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting, data-flow analysis, documentation, testing, and production-support skills.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, governed, secure, and supportable analytics solutions.
- Effective collaboration across distributed teams.
- Preferred: experience Azure data services, PowerBI, Microsoft AI ecosystem, DevOps, APIs, data governance, and AI-ready analytics platforms.

## #LI-PO1 #LI-ONSITE

Our Commitment

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.

All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official E-Signature document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience. For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Illumio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

## About Illumio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Illumio provides a breach containment platform that prevents lateral movement and strengthens cyber resilience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments using AI-powered microsegmentation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (over $557.5M in total funding, 5 rounds, late-stage)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (co-founders typically listed as Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner, but not confirmed in provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Cybersecurity (Computer and Network Security)
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise and midsize businesses across banking & financial services, energy & utilities, government, healthcare, and manufacturing
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Breaches are Inevitable. Disasters are Optional.” – focuses on shifting from prevention to cyber resilience and breach containment.

## Products & Services
- **Illumio Segmentation**: Microsegmentation platform that secures critical assets, workloads, and devices across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Prevents lateral movement and enforces Zero Trust.
- **Illumio Insights**: AI-powered observability, detection, and containment platform. Identifies lateral movement, detects attacks, and enables one-click containment using the Insights Agent (AI teammate).
- **Illumio CloudSecure**: A newer product focused on cloud security, integrating with Azure Firewall Management and other cloud environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**: Annual revenue of $100M (LinkedIn estimate); total funding of $557.5M (LinkedIn).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not specified in provided sources. Key partnership: collaboration with Microsoft to strengthen cyber resilience and prevent breaches at scale.
- **Growth Signals**: 640 employees (+12.0% YoY, +96 people); named a 2024 Forrester Wave Leader in Microsegmentation; named a Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Network Security Microsegmentation; targeting new AI-driven market with Insights Agent.

## Competitive Advantages
- Proven leader in microsegmentation (Forrester Wave Leader, Gartner Customers’ Choice).
- First-to-market breach containment platform – not just detection but automated containment.
- Strong cross-platform support (hybrid, multi-cloud, on-premises).
- High customer satisfaction (4.8/5 star rating based on reviews).
- Deep integrations with major cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, AWS).

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding AI capabilities with the Insights Agent for faster threat detection and automated remediation.
- Deepening cloud-native integrations, especially with Azure Firewall Management.
- Scaling from mid-market to large enterprise and government sectors.
- Building a new global headquarters (Sunnyvale) and expanding regional offices (London, Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Australia, etc.).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Illumineer” culture built on innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and inclusion. Core values: Customer First Always, Relentless Execution, Onwards Together.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 2 days per week in office (Sunnyvale); every Friday is a remote work day.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical benefits, generous parental leave, fitness reimbursement, mentorship program, professional development resources, catered lunches, stocked kitchen, Illumineer Day (dedicated holiday).
- **Employee Resource Groups**: The Neuroverse (neurodiversity), The Rainbow Room (LGBTQIA+), The Women (women’s leadership), The Village (caregivers).
- **Growth**: Fast-growing company (12% headcount YoY) with a mission-critical cybersecurity product; interns work on real projects that impact the future of security.

## Sources
1. [Illumio Homepage](https://www.illumio.com/)
2. [Illumio Careers Page](https://www.illumio.com/company/careers)
3. [Illumio Corporate Overview](https://www.illumio.com/resource-center/corporate-overview)
4. [Illumio Job Listing (Senior Backend Engineer)](https://www.illumio.com/company/job-listing)
5. [Illumio LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/illumio)

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