Principal Platform Engineer (DLP)

Platform Engineer

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.

Your Impact

• 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

Your Experience

• 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, Rust, and shell scripting to automate 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

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products - connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating - challenging how we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don't shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147000/YR - $237500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.