Staff Platform Engineer

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🕒 August 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $250k - $285k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Cortex by Palo Alto Networks

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2005

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • Software

Cortex by Palo Alto Networks is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform designed to enhance real-time security operations across the enterprise and cloud environments. It provides a comprehensive suite of solutions including threat detection, incident response, and security automation to protect organizations from sophisticated cyber threats and streamline security management. The platform emphasizes proactive security measures and integrates seamlessly with various systems, supporting businesses in managing their cybersecurity posture effectively.

📋 Description

• Define architecture and best practices for the platform and infrastructure layer the product is built on • Own the deploy pipeline and lead the move to a GitOps model (Argo) for fast, safe releases • Design and harden multi-tenant isolation and blast-radius protection for top-tier customers, including the path to dedicated / single-tenant deployments • Lead database stabilization and the platform work behind performance, availability, and safe migrations • Build the infrastructure foundations for compliance-heavy and government deployments, including encryption, authentication, boundary and data-flow design • Set the standard for observability, on-call, and operational readiness across engineering, and evangelize platform-first thinking • Collaborate with leadership and product to translate platform capabilities into customer-facing offerings

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling high-performance production systems • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, such as Terraform • Strong database proficiency, such as Postgres, with experience in performance, availability, and migrations at scale • Architectural judgment at the system and cross-team level, including reasoning about blast radius and multi-region scale changes • Working proficiency in at least one application language; JVM preferred • Strong security mindset, including IaC, secrets management, least privilege, and common application security risks • Fluent, critical use of AI in day-to-day engineering and careful review of AI output • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a proven track record of setting technical direction others follow • FedRAMP, FISMA, or other government / compliance deployment experience is a plus • Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Equity Package • National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!) • Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours • 401k plan • Gender-neutral parental leave • $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend • $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything) • Pet Insurance