Sr Staff Engineer Software (Platform & Infrastructure)

Your Career

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to join our core infrastructure development team. In this pivotal role you will be instrumental in designing building and maintaining the shared infrastructure services and platforms that our product and application teams will depend on. You will focus on creating reusable reliable and scalable solutions that abstract away complexity enabling other teams to focus on their core business logic and deliver features faster in a multi-cloud environment.
 

Your Impact

• Design and build core platform components and shared infrastructure services that other development teams will integrate with and leverage to deploy and operate their applications.
• Architect implement and manage highly available and scalable Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal consumers
• Develop robust internal-facing tools and automation for infrastructure provisioning and management primarily using Go (Golang)
• Architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS GCP etc.) focusing on creating reusable patterns and modules for other teams
• Design and implement shared Event-Driven Architecture components and messaging platforms using technologies like Kafka or Google Pub/Sub that product teams can easily utilize
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI) as a service providing standardized and automated deployment workflows for various development teams
• Design and build resilient Distributed Systems components that serve as building blocks for other applications focusing on reliability fault tolerance and performance
• Manage and optimize our shared infrastructure across Multi-Region Cloud Environments ensuring that platform services are globally available and performant for all consumers
• Establish and enhance centralized Observability and Monitoring platforms and tools that provide self-service insights for consuming teams
• Define and implement clear well-documented RESTful API designs for the infrastructure services you build ensuring ease of integration for internal clients
• Implement and manage Service Mesh (e.g. Istio) capabilities providing traffic management security and policy enforcement as a shared platform for services
• Design implement and optimize highly available Relational Database services or shared data platforms for broad organizational use
• Collaborate closely with product development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and pain points providing technical guidance and support
• Participate in on-call rotations to support the critical shared infrastructure you build

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 5 years of experience in an Infrastructure Development Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering role with a strong focus on building tools and services for other engineers
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments particularly in providing it as a platform.
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python with experience building robust maintainable backend services and automation
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS GCP or Azure); multi-cloud experience is a strong plus especially in building abstractions over them
• Proven experience designing and implementing Event-Driven Architecture and message queuing systems (e.g. Kafka Google Pub/Sub) as shared services
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (especially GitLab CI) and experience establishing automated delivery processes for other teams
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating Distributed Systems with an understanding of patterns for creating reliable shared components
• Familiarity with Multi-Region Cloud Environments and strategies for building globally distributed and highly available platform
• Proficiency in establishing and utilizing comprehensive Observability and Monitoring platforms (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK stack Datadog) for shared infrastructure
• Strong experience with RESTful API design principles and building well-documented consumable APIs
• Knowledge of Service Mesh concepts and practical experience with solutions like Istio in a platform context
• Hands-on experience with Relational Databases (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL) ideally in managing them as a service
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A strong customer-centric mindset treating internal development teams as your primary customers.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform Pulumi) for managing shared resources is a plus
• Experience with developer portals or internal documentation systems is a plus
• Contributions to open-source projects especially in the infrastructure space is a plus
• Experience leading design sessions and driving technical consensus among diverse team is a plus

Additional Information :

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve its critical to know where the curve is and how to anticipate the changes were facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. These engineers arent shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business this is the team for you. If you dont wait for directions instead identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better this is your new career.

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 $126000/YR - $204500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at  .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship: Yes