Remote Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect, Production & Cloud

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 184,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to help ensure all components in our platform are optimized and battle-tested. You will build scalable distributed systems using Go and collaborate with teams across Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS in a remote-capable environment.

You will own projects end-to-end, mentor peers, and focus on developer productivity while operating at scale in a global context. This role supports Chronosphere as part of Palo Alto Networks’ observability ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or production-focused engineering roles.
• Own projects from inception to delivery.
• Experience building high-scale systems and sophisticated application services.
• A passion for growing and mentoring peers.
• Experience with Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
• Experience operating Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale on cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting.
• Thorough experience with Linux.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex distributed systems problems at the largest scales.
• Scale our infrastructure and architecture to meet the needs of the platform and its engineers.
• Use Go to build highly scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Build on top of our architecture stack using Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS.
• Operate large-scale distributed systems globally.
• Own projects from inception to delivery, including planning, requirements gathering, and collaboration with Product.
• Mentor and up-level peers, helping junior engineers grow.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Mentoring

Linux

Monitoring and alerting

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Open-source contributions

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to help ensure all components in our platform are optimized and battle-tested. You will build scalable distributed systems using Go and collaborate with teams across Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS in a remote-capable environment.

You will own projects end-to-end, mentor peers, and focus on developer productivity while operating at scale in a global context. This role supports Chronosphere as part of Palo Alto Networks’ observability ecosystem.