Senior Principal Cloud Platform Architect

Lux Capital; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks in San Jose, CA seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural strategy for high-scale cloud platform services. You will design, implement, and scale critical components across IAM, auth, and entitlement lifecycles.

Join a team that values disruption, collaboration, and excellence, with hands-on coding in Go/Node.js/Python and cloud-native deployments on Kubernetes. Leadership and mentorship are key parts of the role.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building large-scale enterprise SaaS applications, with 5+ years in lead technical architecture orStaff/Principal engineering roles for cloud-native platforms.
• Deep hands-on experience building high-concurrency microservices in Go, Node.js, and Python.
• Strong background in event-driven architectures using message brokers (GCP Pub/Sub) and stateful workflow engines (Temporal).

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve platform services for IAM/RBAC, licensing, and entitlement lifecycle.
• Design and build resilient, distributed microservices using Go, Node.js, Python on GCP and Kubernetes.
• Enforce zero-trust patterns with mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and fine-grained authorization models.
• Partner with Product, SRE, QA, and customer-facing teams to deliver end-to-end cloud solutions.
• Contribute to shared Go, Node, Python frameworks, SDKs, and event-driven patterns.
• Drive reliability, scalability, latency improvements, and RCAs across multi-region Kubernetes deployments.
• Mentor principal, senior, and mid-level engineers to foster high-quality engineering culture.

Skills

Go

Node.js

Python

Distributed DBs

Workflow orchestration

Zero-trust security

GKE / Kubernetes

Technical leadership

Security engineering

React micro-frontends

Tools

Google Cloud

Temporal

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Istio

GCP Pub/Sub

Job description

Palo Alto Networks in San Jose, CA seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural strategy for high-scale cloud platform services. You will design, implement, and scale critical components across IAM, auth, and entitlement lifecycles.

Join a team that values disruption, collaboration, and excellence, with hands-on coding in Go/Node.js/Python and cloud-native deployments on Kubernetes. Leadership and mentorship are key parts of the role.