Principal Engineer - Platform Engineer

About This Role

This platform engineering role on a newly forming team involves designing, building, and maintaining the secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure that powers the company's next-generation threat prevention platforms. The engineer will manage the orchestration plane and automate deployment pipelines to ensure inline engines, data pipelines, and AI models run at peak global performance. This work is critical for the system's reliability, enabling engineering teams to deliver cutting-edge security products at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect, configure, and maintain high-scale Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform, optimizing for performance, resource utilization, and secure network isolation
• Deploy, scale, and optimize core GCP managed data services, specifically Bigtable (for low-latency streaming telemetry) and BigQuery (for large-scale data analytics)
• Design and implement robust Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to manage global multi-region environments deterministically
• Build and support robust CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated validation gates, and version pinning configurations for the platform microservices
• Partner with Data Plane and Data Pipeline engineers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize resource bounds, ensuring sub-millisecond data processing stability
• Drive site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, establishing observability dashboards, metrics collection, and proactive alerting frameworks

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience) with 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Platform Engineering
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (GKE), container runtime environments, and service mesh architectures
• Extensive production experience with ArgoCD for continuous delivery and GitLab CI/CD for automating complex software delivery pipelines
• Proven proficiency in managing production cloud infrastructure using Terraform or similar IaC tools

Nice to have:

• Direct experience administering and performance-tuning GCP Bigtable (BT) and GCP BigQuery (BQ) in high-throughput environments
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash to automate infrastructure tasks and develop platform tooling
• Experience with cloud-native monitoring systems (such as Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Cloud Monitoring)
• Familiarity with cloud security compliance, IAM controls, and securing container workloads

Important Details

• Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship: Yes

About the Company

Palo Alto Networks is united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. They thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. They are committed to being the cybersecurity partner of choice, trailblazing the path and shaping the future of the industry, and weaving AI into the fabric of everything they do.