Principal Platform Engineer (DLP)

Principal Platform Engineer (DLP)

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Palo Alto Networks runs a large hybrid infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers. As a Platform Engineer, you will be part of a team building tooling to help manage this infrastructure and improve overall efficiency and performance. This includes automation, architecture design, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, and reliability.

Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Terraform, Kafka, Vault, Gitlab, Pub/sub, Bigtable, Memorystore, Bigquery, RabbitMq, MongoDB, Python, and Go. We don't expect you to know all these, but we do expect you to learn the ones needed for this role.

Contribute to the success of the DevOps organization

Develop expertise in new technologies

Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts

Design, build, and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure

Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable

Develop tools and automation frameworks

Automate robust deployment of robust services

Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting

Participate with Dev and DevOps teams in the on-call rotation

Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues

Mentor and champion DevOps culture

Participate in design reviews

BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or Kustomize

Expertise in managing distributed and autoscaled applications in Kubernetes clusters

Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability

Expertise in the public cloud (GCP, AWS, or OCI)

Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting

Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Golang, or Rust to develop applications and tooling to manage advanced data systems and automate complex tasks

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and GitHub preferred

Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high-volume transactions

Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support

Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Passion for infrastructure and monitoring as code

Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly