Principal AI Platform Engineer
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$184k - $297k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable, secure cloud infrastructure.
- Develop tools, automation frameworks, and robust service deployment processes.
- Manage distributed and autoscaled applications running in Kubernetes clusters.
- Implement end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure automation.
- Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot complex production issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis for critical business and production incidents.
- Collaborate with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts.
- Mentor engineers and champion DevOps culture.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional or military experience.
- Expertise with configuration-management frameworks such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or Kustomize.
- Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability.
- Expertise with public clouds such as GCP, AWS, or OCI.
- Strong Linux administration, Linux internals, and network troubleshooting skills.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust for developing applications and infrastructure tooling.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines; GitLab and GitHub are preferred.
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex, high-volume distributed systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to collaborate across teams.
- Demonstrated ownership, self-management, urgency, and ability to learn new technology stacks quickly.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The role is eligible for immigration sponsorship.
- Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus in addition to base salary.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSDockerGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmKubernetesLinuxMongoDBOracle CloudPythonRabbitMQRustTerraform
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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.