Sr Staff DevOps Engineer (Prisma AIRS Platform Infrastructure Security)

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary Your Career With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world's most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents, creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. In response, Prisma AIRS delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime. The Platform Infrastructure team is the engine behind this mission. We provide the foundational cloud infrastructure and a smooth interface that abstracts away the complexities of global networking and infosec for our product teams. We are seeking a Principal Infrastructure / Security Engineer to own the intersection of platform infrastructure and product security. In this hybrid role, you will lead the shift-left security strategy, building internal platform tools that allow our engineers to ship secure-by-default software. You will be the primary technical interface between the AIRS organization and central infosec. This role is in office 3 days a week. Specify your preference of our downtown Seattle Washington office or our Santa Clara, California HQ campus. Our Stack Our platform is built on a modern, cloud-native foundation centered around Kubernetes. We value deep expertise in a few core areas and a strong desire to master the technologies that drive our platform forward. Cloud & Orchestration GCP (primary), Kubernetes, AWS, Containerization tools CI/CD & GitOps GitLab CI, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Github actions Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC), Helm, Terraform Languages & Core Tooling Python (modern, typed), Go (highly desired), BASH, rego We actively leverage AI Coding Assistants like Claude to boost our productivity. Your Impact As a Principal Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose influence defines how we secure and ship software at scale. Build the Security Paved Road: Act as a force multiplier by integrating security tooling directly into our internal developer platform and CI/CD pipelines. Abstract Infosec Complexity: Serve as the strategic point of contact for central Infosec, translating their requirements into automated infrastructure patterns so product teams don't have to. Govern Release Integrity: Define and enforce security standards for Prisma AIRS, ensuring every new feature meets launch requirements and compliance standards before reaching customers. Scale Foundational Infra: Work with the infrastructure team to embed security and permissions management into our core GCP and Kubernetes foundatio ... (truncated, view full listing at source)