CareerPlan

Principal Engineer - Platform Engineer

Office - USA - CA - HeadquartersFull-time$184k–$297k2026-09-14 → 2026-11-12
Hybrid · United StatesVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure powering next-generation threat prevention platforms and AI models.

Role type

Principal Platform Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure & SRE)

Builds

Global multi-region Kubernetes clusters, orchestration plane, automated deployment pipelines, and data services (Bigtable/BigQuery) for security products.

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes (GKE), GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD (GitLab CI), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Python/Go/Bash scripting, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, GCP Bigtable/BigQuery administration.

Preferred skills

Service mesh architectures, cloud security compliance (IAM), sub-millisecond data processing optimization.

Responsibilities

Architect and maintain high-scale Kubernetes clusters on GCP; Deploy and optimize GCP managed data services (Bigtable, BigQuery); Design and implement IaC solutions for global environments; Build and support CI/CD pipelines and automated validation gates; Partner with Data Plane engineers to monitor and optimize resource bounds; Drive SRE practices including observability dashboards and proactive alerting.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship