Palo Alto Sr Staff Software Engineer Controller/Kubernetes 

United States, California 

330400787

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Your Career

We are seeking a highly skilled Engineer specializing in cloud-native infrastructure development. This role is ideal for someone with expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, multi-cloud resource orchestration and distributed systems. The team you will join is responsible for architecting, scaling, and optimizing our multi-cloud environments (Terraform, CFT etc. as well as Kubernetes-based environments) to build and maintain a high-availability, resilient infrastructure.

Your Impact

• Work along side a team of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure engineers.

• Work cross-functionally with development, DevOps, and security teams to streamline deployments and optimize system reliability.

• Technical Strategy & Implementation:

• Architect, implement, monitor and scale multi-cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications.

• Define and enforce Kubernetes security, networking, and governance best practices. Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for Kubernetes-based workloads.

• Evaluate and integrate service mesh technologies like Istio where necessary.

• Optimize performance, cost, and availability in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, OCI).

• Process & Collaboration:

• Develop and manage dynamic orchestration for multiple cloud resources in AWS, GCP, OCI etc.

• Develop and manage Kubernetes infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

• Work closely with SRE and DevOps teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications.

• Ensure compliance with SLAs, SLOs, and SRE best practices for uptime and performance.

• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning efforts.

Your Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure roles

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and cloud-native technologies.

• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or Flux.

• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python or Go

• Good understanding of networking concepts like CNI, ingress controllers, and service meshes.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Preferred:

• Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments and edge computing.

• Exposure to serverless computing (Knative, AWS Lambda).

• Experience working with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $126000 - $197500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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