Remote Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Infra Reliability

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 126,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build scalable developer tooling and an IaC-driven platform. You’ll own end-to-end tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and observability for a cloud-native environment.

This remote-friendly role involves collaboration across geographies and a security-focused engineering culture. You will mentor peers and drive high-impact infrastructure improvements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in backend or systems engineering.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
• Cloud-native experience with AWS or GCP; comfortable with Kubernetes.
• Deep Linux internals, process management, and resource isolation.
• Knowledge of OSI model, service meshes, load balancing, zero-trust security.
• Experience with distributed systems, CAP, tracing.
• Ability to estimate work and own features end-to-end.
• Excellent communication and collaboration.
• AI-native development experience or interest.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Build: Design and maintain high-scale developer tooling and backend services that improve productivity and reliability across a distributed cloud environment.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Define, deploy, and manage entire environments using declarative IaC (Terraform).
• Drive Systemic Quality: Identify and eliminate systemic bottlenecks in the SDLC through architectural changes or tooling.
• Scale & Reliability: Ensure infrastructure remains resilient under massive traffic loads, optimize for performance and telemetry processing.
• Strategic Leadership & Mentorship: Define platform standards and reference architectures for 1-3 year horizon; mentor teams.

Skills

Backend languages

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking & Security

Distributed Systems

Debugging & Testing

AI-Native Development

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build scalable developer tooling and an IaC-driven platform. You’ll own end-to-end tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and observability for a cloud-native environment.

This remote-friendly role involves collaboration across geographies and a security-focused engineering culture. You will mentor peers and drive high-impact infrastructure improvements.