Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Palo Alto Networks15 days ago
Base Salary
$163k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for end-to-end solution delivery in collaboration with Product, SRE, QA, and Support.
- Develop scalable cloud security architecture through strategic planning and hands-on coding.
- Establish best practices for model versioning, reproducibility, auditing, compliance, code quality, and data privacy.
- Architect and lead the full machine learning lifecycle from development and training through production deployment and real-time inference.
- Build and maintain automated, resilient CI/CD and monitoring systems for backend and machine learning components.
- Evaluate and integrate MLOps tools and frameworks to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Design cloud security solutions and resolve complex backend infrastructure and ML model challenges.
- Manage and optimize ML infrastructure and pipelines for performance, production integration, and operational cost reduction.
Requirements
- Strong background in machine learning and ML frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software development experience focused on cloud-native and SaaS applications.
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience across the full machine learning lifecycle, including model deployment and MLOps.
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred.
- Cybersecurity or network security product experience is preferred.
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Experience with real-time data processing and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Flink is preferred.
- Contributions to open-source cloud-native or MLOps projects are preferred.
Benefits
- The role generally works from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The position is eligible for immigration sponsorship.
- Employee benefits are available as described by the employer.
- Compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonPyTorchTensorFlowTerraform
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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.