Principal DevOps Engineer (DexEx Platform)
Palo Alto Networks14 days ago
Petaẖ Tiqwa, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for AI-assisted engineering, agentic workflows, testing, operations, security, and product AI features.
- Drive high-impact cross-team initiatives by defining problems, users, priorities, ownership, milestones, and success metrics.
- Design shared AI enablement infrastructure including approved models and gateways, MCP and tool integrations, reusable agents and skills, evaluation frameworks, and cost controls.
- Develop secure AI-use guardrails covering data handling, intellectual property, agent permissions, and supply-chain risk in partnership with Security, Legal, and Compliance.
- Establish measurements for AI impact on engineering velocity, quality, cost, and developer experience, including DORA-aligned metrics.
- Champion AI adoption through training, guilds, communities of practice, mentoring, and an InnerSource culture.
- Design distributed systems, SDKs, or internal frameworks used by multiple engineering teams and influence engineers and senior leadership without direct authority.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps, including at least 3 years in a Principal, Staff, or Architect role leading cross-organizational technical work.
- Hands-on production experience building with LLMs and agentic systems, including tool use, MCP, RAG, evaluation, guardrails, and cost and latency management.
- Strong programming skills in Python or Go and experience designing distributed systems, SDKs, or internal frameworks used by many teams.
- Experience driving initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority and influencing engineers and senior leadership.
- Scaled cloud architecture experience, preferably with AWS, including secure, resilient, and cost-effective designs.
- Grounding in CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and the effects of AI on engineering workflows.
- Excellent communication skills and a strong user- and outcome-oriented approach to prioritization and success metrics.
- Preferred: BSc/MSc in Computer Science or graduation from an elite technology unit such as MAMRAM or 8200.
- Preferred: open-source contributions, industry conference speaking, internal platform or developer-experience adoption experience, AI threat modeling, IAM design, data governance, software supply-chain security, and enterprise-scale AI adoption programs.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
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About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.