Palo Alto Principal Platformization/Cloud Software Engineer 

United States, California 

690898820

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

Your Impact

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one- agile is second nature to you and you’re excited to work in scrum teams and represent the DevOps perspective.
• Design, review and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance - you’ve helped create services that are critical to their customers’ success.
• Drive platformization by building standardized, self-service infrastructure platforms that improve developer productivity, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale. You are experienced in cloud Infrastructure as Code concepts and have put them into production.
• Partner with teams to improve CI/CD processes and technology - Helping teams in delivering value early is what you strive for
• Mentor members of the staff on large-scale cloud deployments - you’re an expert in deploying in the cloud and can bring a teaching mindset to help others benefit from your experience.
• Drive the adoption of observability practices and a data-driven mindset - you love metrics, graphs, and gaining a deep understanding of why things happen in a system, helping others gain visibility into the things they build
• Set up processes like on-call rotations, Postmortems, and run books to continue supporting the infrastructure owned by the SRE team while finding ways to reduce the time to resolution and improve the reliability of services.
• Support, optimize, and deploy mission-critical, front-end, and back-end production.
• Improving site performance, monitoring, and overall stability of our infrastructure

Your Experience

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of industry experience in engineering
• Fluent scripting skills (preferably Python or Bash) with deep experience in Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond.
• 3+ years of working with Microservices architectures on Kubernetes
• HandsOn experience with container native tools like Docker, Helm for managing workloads running in Kubernetes.
• Experience managing AWS and GCP at scale, with knowledge of cloud-neutral connectivity between platforms.
• Experience designing and maintaining API specifications using Swagger/OpenAPI, and working with API frameworks such as Apigee to enable secure, scalable integrations.
• HandsOn experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Proficient in CI/CD platforms like GitlabCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI etc.
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, concurrency, etc)
• Implement and enforce network and cloud security best practices, serving as a security champion within the team.
• Drive observability initiatives by implementing distributed tracing, standardized logging, dashboards, and profiling, leveraging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to ensure SLA/SLO compliance
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with setting up and troubleshooting Nginx or Ingress Nginx
• Hands-on production experience with Kafka, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery; expertise in tuning, performance, and guiding long-term strategy for self-hosted or managed solutions a strong plus.
• The exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead. The exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and boost productivity.

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 $147,000 - $237,500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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