Senior Principal Cloud Platform Architect

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

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking Senior Principal Software Engineers to shape the architecture of our cloud platform services, including IAM/RBAC, entitlement lifecycle, and secure, scalable microservices. You will contribute to shared frameworks, drive security-first design, and own critical engineering initiatives.

As a hands-on leader, you will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product Management, SRE, QA, and customer-facing teams to deliver robust, end-to-end cloud solutions across

Qualifications

• 15+ years building large-scale enterprise SaaS
• 5+ years in lead technical architecture or Staff/Principal roles
• Deep Go/Node.js/Python backend experience

Responsibilities

• Architect & evolve platform services for IAM/RBAC and licensing lifecycle
• Hands-on system engineering with distributed microservices on GCP and Temporal
• Enforce zero-trust security and OAuth/OIDC across global services
• Lead technical strategy with Product, SRE, QA, and customer-facing teams
• Contribute to core frameworks and SDKs for multi-region deployments
• Drive reliability, latency, and incident analysis across Kubernetes (GKE)
• Mentor and develop principal, senior, and mid-level engineers

Skills

Go

Node.js

Python

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Cloud computing

OAuth2/OIDC

Kubernetes

Terraform

Temporal

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cloud Spanner

Cloud SQL

AlloyDB

Firestore

MongoDB

Redis

GKE

Terraform

Temporal

Istio

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking Senior Principal Software Engineers to shape the architecture of our cloud platform services, including IAM/RBAC, entitlement lifecycle, and secure, scalable microservices. You will contribute to shared frameworks, drive security-first design, and own critical engineering initiatives.

As a hands-on leader, you will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product Management, SRE, QA, and customer-facing teams to deliver robust, end-to-end cloud solutions across