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Principal Engineer - Platform Engineer

Office - USA - CA - Headquarters💼 Full-time💰 $183,600–$183,600🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure for next-generation threat prevention platforms, including orchestration and automated deployment pipelines.

Role type

Principal Platform Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure & SRE)

Builds

Global multi-region Kubernetes clusters, GCP data services (Bigtable, BigQuery), and CI/CD pipelines for platform microservices.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes (GKE), GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD (GitLab CI/CD), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Python/Go/Bash scripting, Cloud-native monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana)

Preferred skills

GCP Bigtable/BigQuery administration, Service mesh architectures, Enterprise security compliance (IAM)

Technologies

Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, GKE, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Bigtable, BigQuery, Prometheus, Grafana

Responsibilities

Architect and maintain high-scale Kubernetes clusters; Deploy and optimize GCP managed data services; Design IaC solutions for global environments; Build CI/CD pipelines and validation gates; Partner with Data Plane engineers to optimize resource bounds; Drive SRE practices and observability frameworks

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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