Senior Principal Cloud Platform Architect

Palo Alto Networks; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to shape and lead the architecture of scalable cloud platform services. You will design end-to-end solutions across IAM, RBAC, licensing, and workflow orchestration, while hands-on building resilient microservices in Go, Node.js and Python on GCP with Temporal workflow orchestration.

You will enforce zero-trust patterns across global services and collaborate with PM, SRE, QA, and customer teams to deliver robust cloud solutions in a

Qualifications

• :// 15+ years building large-scale enterprise SaaS applications.
• 5+ years in lead technical architecture or Staff/Principal roles for cloud-native platforms.
• Deep hands-on experience with high-concurrency microservices in Go, Node.js, and Python.
• Strong background in event-driven architectures using message brokers and Temporal.

Responsibilities

• Architect & evolve platform services with IAM/RBAC, licensing, device management and orchestration.
• Hands-on system engineering: build distributed microservices in Go/Node.js/Python on Google Cloud and Temporal.
• Enforce zero-trust security, including mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and fine-grained authorization models.
• Provide technical leadership, partnering with PM, SRE, QA, and customer-facing teams.
• Contribute to core frameworks, SDKs, and multi-region Kubernetes deployments.
• Drive reliability, scalability, latency improvements, and RCA for major incidents.

Skills

Go

Node.js

Python

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

OAuth2/OIDC

RBAC/ABAC

gRPC

Tools

Cloud Spanner

Cloud SQL

AlloyDB

Firestore

MongoDB

Redis

GCP Pub/Sub

Temporal

Istio mTLS

Terraform

Kubernetes (GKE)

Job description

Palo Alto Networks seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to shape and lead the architecture of scalable cloud platform services. You will design end-to-end solutions across IAM, RBAC, licensing, and workflow orchestration, while hands-on building resilient microservices in Go, Node.js and Python on GCP with Temporal workflow orchestration.

You will enforce zero-trust patterns across global services and collaborate with PM, SRE, QA, and customer teams to deliver robust cloud solutions in a