Senior Staff Engineer, Software Infrastructure Reliability
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Infrastructure Engineer building cloud-native developer tooling and reliable backend services at Palo Alto Networks. Enabling engineering teams to deliver observability for major technology companies.
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain high-scale developer tooling and backend services across a distributed cloud environment
- Own the end-to-end development lifecycle, including local development tools, CI/CD, dynamic testing environments, deployments, and releases
- Build an infrastructure platform enabling engineering teams to deliver observability for large technology companies
- Define, deploy, and manage reproducible, version-controlled environments using Terraform
- Identify and eliminate systemic software development lifecycle bottlenecks through architectural changes and advanced tooling
- Optimize infrastructure for resilience under massive traffic loads, performance, cost efficiency, and near-real-time telemetry processing
- Define platform standards and reference architectures over a 1–3 year horizon
- Consult across teams on infrastructure best practices
- Mentor engineers and improve organizational technical capabilities
Requirements:
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Java, Python, or Rust
- Experience with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP
- Kubernetes and container-level logic knowledge
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals, process management, and resource isolation
- Understanding of the OSI model, service meshes, load balancing, and zero-trust security architectures
- Experience building and debugging distributed systems involving CAP theorem trade-offs, eventual consistency, and distributed tracing
- Reliable task completion and work estimation within a sprint
- Ability to debug code using logs and tests and identify design edge cases
- Strong communication skills for code reviews and design discussions
- Proactive willingness to learn new tools, processes, and libraries
- Experience or interest in AI coding assistants such as Cursor or Claude
Benefits:
- Restricted stock units
- Bonus
- Employee benefits (details referenced in posting)
- Immigration sponsorship eligibility
- Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities















