Principal DevOps Engineer (DevOps Platform)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Your Career:

Welcome to the Platform Engineering DevEx group-the driving force behind Palo Alto internal developer platform! We are entering an exciting era of growth and innovation, building out specialized pillars to champion a truly world-class developer experience. We are looking for an inspiring Principal Platform Engineer to serve as our technical anchor, visionary, and culture-builder.

• Architect the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) Vision: Define the multi-year architectural blueprint and technology stack for our IDP. You will ensure the platform is highly scalable, extensible, and abstracts complex multi-cloud operations into a frictionless, elegant developer experience.
• Govern the Enterprise "Golden Path": Standardize and govern the backend logic and API frameworks used for self-service infrastructure. You will design the foundational plugins and paving strategies that allow global R&D teams to scaffold services, provision secure cloud resources, and manage permissions autonomously.
• Champion Data-Driven Engineering Culture: Own the strategy for "Service Maturity Scorecards" and organizational insights. You will design systems to aggregate and analyze data from across the entire SDLC toolchain (GitHub, Jira, Artifactory), providing executive leadership and engineering directors with clear visibility into global DORA metrics, velocity, and quality.
• Design Resilient Enterprise Integrations: Architect the overarching event-driven automation framework that seamlessly glues our global toolchain together (Kubernetes, GitHub, LaunchDarkly, Artifactory). You will drive the elimination of "TicketOps" across the company, replacing it with resilient, silent, background automation.
• Drive Platform Evangelism & InnerSourcing:Act as the primary advocate for the platform across Palo Alto global R&D organization. You will gather feedback from engineering leaders, cultivate an InnerSource culture where other teams contribute to the platform, and mentor senior engineers within the DevEx pillar.

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with at least 3 years in a Principal, Staff, or Enterprise Architect role.
• Expert Programming Skills: Deep mastery of Python or Go (Golang), with a proven track record of designing large-scale distributed systems, SDKs, or internal frameworks.
• Cloud Architecture at Scale: Extensive experience architecting secure, resilient, and cost-effective AWS solutions (Serverless, compute, and multi-account strategies).
• Advanced GitOps & CI/CD Governance: Proven experience designing enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines and scaling GitOps workflows (ArgoCD or Flux) across complex, multi-tenant environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Leadership: Mastery of IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, or OpenTofu), including experience building reusable, secure module libraries used by dozens of engineering teams.

• Education: BSc/MSc in Computer Science or elite tech unit graduate (MAMRAM/8200).
• Community & Thought Leadership: Active contributor to the CNCF/open-source community or speaker at industry conferences (DevOpsDays, KubeCon, etc.).
• Platform-as-a-Product Expertise: Experience implementing product management methodologies within an engineering organization (e.g., Backstage adoption, developer advocacy).
• Security & Compliance: Deep understanding of Threat Modeling, IAM matrix design, and supply chain security (software composition analysis, provenance).