Sr Staff Engineer Software

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

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Description

Your CareerWe are looking for a highly talented technical individual to join the Cortex XDR infrastructure team.The team is responsible for developing automation infrastructure and various cloud based tools and platforms that are used across the research, development and QA departments to ensure the functionality, stability and quality of the XDR product, alongside the efficiency of the infrastructure and process used to build, test and deploy on various clouds and distributions. We believe that the platforms & infrastructure that the team provides are a critical & crucial part of our department's progress to the modern future and one of our key growth factors.As a Platform engineer you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our development and automation experience by pushing forward modern automation approaches, eliminating manual efforts and introducing new development operations for continuous integration, scale & durability using advanced cloud services. Your expertise will be used in areas such as infrastructure development, cloud based automation, serverless infrastructure, automation as a service, providing technical guidance, and pushing infrastructure\configuration as a code and GitOps approach across the development departments.To succeed in this role, you should have a strong foundation in modern cloud based automation methodologies and a comprehensive understanding of industry best practices, especially in redundancy and scalability of large systems and the ability to control them via SCM based declarative configs. You should be familiar with modern public clouds approaches and serverless based architectures, including virtualization containers and container based orchestration including multiple Kubernetes based deployments. You should be comfortable engaging in complex technical discussions and advocating for optimal solutions in a fast-paced growing environment as part of our quest for continuous improvement.Your ImpactUtilize modern technologies including serverless cloud services, Kubernetes, Terraform, among others, and use them all in an infrastructure/configuration as a code GItOps approach to manage everything via source code and continuous integration processesDesign and implement (hands on) the next generation of platforms, automation frameworks, SDKs, and tools to be used across our entire R&D group, and be part of our infrastructure transition to the cloudDevelop and maintain a cloud based test execution system, that supports parallel executions on multiple operating systems and multiple cloud providers and at a very large scale, and by so helping reduce the amount of effort required to perform automatic testing and manual testing, and reduce time to marketProvide tools, systems and simulators for scaling up all lifecycle phases of our products and services including cross company and third party integrations and frameworks to be used in high scaleIntroduce progress and help revolutionize our operations and lay the foundation for innovation and growth