Palo Alto Sr Staff Software Engineer Platform Engineering Prisma Access 

United States, California 

687907248

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Focus on Platform Engineering efforts, designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale platforms, and ensuring they are scalable, secure, and efficient.

• Develop and implement platform engineering strategies, including infrastructure as code, containerization, and serverless architectures.

• Provide technical guidance and push infrastructure/configuration as code and GitOps approach across development departments.

• Design and implement next-generation platforms, automation frameworks, SDKs, and tools.

• Develop and maintain a cloud-based test execution system to reduce effort required for automatic testing and manual testing.

• Introduce progress and help revolutionize operations, laying the foundation for innovation and growth.

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Building and maintaining platforms that support the development, testing, and deployment of products and services.

• Ensuring platforms are designed with scalability, security, and efficiency in mind.

• Collaborating with development teams to ensure platforms meet their needs and are integrated into their workflows.

• Staying up-to-date with the latest platform engineering trends and technologies, and applying that knowledge to improve the company's platforms.

• Troubleshooting and resolving platform-related issues, and collaborating with other teams to resolve complex problems.

Your Experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent military experience.

• At least 6 years of hands-on experience as a Platform engineering, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, or equivalent.

• Experience working with cloud services in big public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP).

• Strong programming skills in Python (or another high-level language) and experience with object-oriented programming, design patterns, algorithms, and data structures.

• Experience with containerization technologies (docker, containers) and orchestration, especially with various Kubernetes deployments.

Desired Experience

• Strong experience with automation tools (like Ansible, Terraform).

• Security background in general and security programs knowledge in particular.

• Experience with building or maintaining automation frameworks for large organizations impacting 1000+ engineers.

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 $126,000/yr to $203,500/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.