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Sr. Staff Engineer
With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world’s most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents, creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. In response, Prisma AIRS delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI‑driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime.
Location Seattle, WA office (3 days in office per week). This is not a remote role.
Our Stack
Cloud & Orchestration
– Google Cloud Platform (primary), Kubernetes, AWS, Containerization tools
CI/CD & GitOps
– GitLab CI, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, GitHub actions
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
– Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC), Helm, Terraform, Cue
Languages & Core Tooling
– Python (modern, typed), Go (highly desired), BASH, rego
Your Impact
Act as a force multiplier for our engineering teams by building and evangelizing a cohesive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that simplifies, builds safety into, and accelerates the path to production.
Drive the adoption of GitOps and progressive delivery across the organization, providing safe, automated, and observable deployment pipelines that engineering teams can trust, directly improving the quality and velocity of our product.
Elevate the organization’s cloud‑native expertise by setting the standard for Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform best practices, influencing the architecture, reliability, and security of our core products.
Architect and operate a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure, forming the resilient foundation that Prisma AIRS is built upon, ensuring our customers are protected around the clock.
Reduce engineering toil and eliminate entire classes of problems through insightful automation, self‑service tooling, and observability frameworks, giving time back to every engineer in the AIRS org.
Qualifications
Innate Sense of Ownership and a Collaborative Spirit: highly technical, self‑motivated contributor who sees projects through from idea to production and excels at navigating the organization.
Superpower for Debugging: deep command of engineering fundamentals – Linux internals, networking, application performance – to systematically diagnose and solve complex distributed problems.
Mastery of Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Platforms: extensive, hands‑on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure declaratively, expert in modern IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, Crossplane/ACK/KCC) and deep proficiency with a major cloud provider, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
Deep Expertise in the Cloud‑Native Ecosystem: thorough understanding of Kubernetes in large‑scale production environments and fluent in building automation and platform tooling with modern, typed Python. Experience with Go is a significant plus.
Benefits Palo Alto Networks offers a comprehensive benefits package including FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items, mental and financial health resources, personalized learning opportunities, and other typical corporate benefits.
We value collaboration and provide in‑office work in a flexible environment with casual conversations and problem‑solving.
Compensation Base salary for this position ranges from $147,000 to $185,000 per year, plus potential restricted stock units and bonus, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
EEO Statement Palo Alto Networks is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected class. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability.
Immigration Sponsorship We do not sponsor work visas for this position.
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Location Seattle, WA office (3 days in office per week). This is not a remote role.
Our Stack
Cloud & Orchestration
– Google Cloud Platform (primary), Kubernetes, AWS, Containerization tools
CI/CD & GitOps
– GitLab CI, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, GitHub actions
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
– Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC), Helm, Terraform, Cue
Languages & Core Tooling
– Python (modern, typed), Go (highly desired), BASH, rego
Your Impact
Act as a force multiplier for our engineering teams by building and evangelizing a cohesive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that simplifies, builds safety into, and accelerates the path to production.
Drive the adoption of GitOps and progressive delivery across the organization, providing safe, automated, and observable deployment pipelines that engineering teams can trust, directly improving the quality and velocity of our product.
Elevate the organization’s cloud‑native expertise by setting the standard for Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform best practices, influencing the architecture, reliability, and security of our core products.
Architect and operate a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure, forming the resilient foundation that Prisma AIRS is built upon, ensuring our customers are protected around the clock.
Reduce engineering toil and eliminate entire classes of problems through insightful automation, self‑service tooling, and observability frameworks, giving time back to every engineer in the AIRS org.
Qualifications
Innate Sense of Ownership and a Collaborative Spirit: highly technical, self‑motivated contributor who sees projects through from idea to production and excels at navigating the organization.
Superpower for Debugging: deep command of engineering fundamentals – Linux internals, networking, application performance – to systematically diagnose and solve complex distributed problems.
Mastery of Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Platforms: extensive, hands‑on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure declaratively, expert in modern IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, Crossplane/ACK/KCC) and deep proficiency with a major cloud provider, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
Deep Expertise in the Cloud‑Native Ecosystem: thorough understanding of Kubernetes in large‑scale production environments and fluent in building automation and platform tooling with modern, typed Python. Experience with Go is a significant plus.
Benefits Palo Alto Networks offers a comprehensive benefits package including FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items, mental and financial health resources, personalized learning opportunities, and other typical corporate benefits.
We value collaboration and provide in‑office work in a flexible environment with casual conversations and problem‑solving.
Compensation Base salary for this position ranges from $147,000 to $185,000 per year, plus potential restricted stock units and bonus, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
EEO Statement Palo Alto Networks is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected class. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability.
Immigration Sponsorship We do not sponsor work visas for this position.
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