Principal Engineer Software; Platform & Infrastructure

Company Description Our Mission

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 believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

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.

• 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, Google Cloud Platform, 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., Git Lab 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

• 10 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, Google Cloud Platform, 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,…