Sr. Engineering Manager, AI Platform

📋 Description

• Lead and grow a team of backend engineers building highly scalable cloud services and AI-powered
• Drive technical strategy and execution for distributed systems, platform APIs, and AI-enabled
• Partner closely with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Data Science teams to deliver
• Define architecture for large-scale microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud-native
• Help shape Illumio's AI roadmap, including agentic workflows, LLM integrations, RAG architectures
• Establish engineering best practices around reliability, observability, scalability, security, and

🎯 Requirements

• 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
• Experience building high-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures leveraging
• Practical understanding of modern AI systems, including LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, model