Principal DevOps Engineer (Data Engineering) - Cortex XDR

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

The Cortex team builds and delivers the industry’s most advanced SecOps platform, consisting of XDR, XSIAM, XSOAR, and XPANSE. As a member of the Cortex DevOps team,  your role involves operating and maintaining a large-scale GCP environment 

We are looking for a motivated Principal Data / DevOps Engineer to join our Cortex XDR Devops group in our India center. We are responsible for reliability, scalability, and Operational excellence while keeping an eye on latency, performance, and capacity of GCP hosted data stores , primarily BigQuery. As part of this role, you will  collaborate closely with our engineering teams to develop innovative solutions that provide clear and actionable insights into our systems’ performance and health.

• Contribute to the success of the Data platform team.
• Develop expertise in new technologies
• Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
• Ensure that applications are scalable, and reliable
• Develop tools and automation frameworks
• Automate robust deployment of robust services
• Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
• Participate in design reviews

Your Impact

• You will work closely with development teams to manage and optimize data storage and processing in BigQuery in GCP
• Optimizes query performance and reduces costs for faster, more efficient data analysis.
• Ensures scalability of data infrastructure to support product growth.
• Supports feature optimization and enhances user experience with accurate data analysis.
• Manages data-related costs by optimizing storage and query strategies.
• Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the applications and infrastructure
• You will think of new ways of improving existing processes and creating new ones to increase Developers Experience
• Own, maintain, and continuously improve all systems provided as a service, such as monitoring and datastores
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, anticipating performance bottlenecks

Your Experience 

• 9+ years in data engineering / DevOps with extensive experience working on Dataware housing solutions.
• Experienced in managing and optimizing GCP BigQuery with expertise in SQL query tuning, partitioning and clustering for performance and cost efficiency.
• Experience in schema design, table management and query execution
• Proficiency with DB such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MemSQL, MySQL
• Proficiency with code language (Python / Go - preferred)
• Proficiency in the Google Cloud Platform
• High proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (Kubernetes and Docker)
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience in ETL/ELT Development
• Systematic problem-solving approach
• Bachelor in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent or equivalent military experience required
• Passionate about technology with a strong focus on ensuring high reliability and service levels.

The Team

We are a global cybersecurity leader, dedicated to protecting the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. Our Security Operating Platform enables organizations to embrace digital transformation securely, leveraging automation, analytics, and continuous innovation. Designed for ease of use and automation, it empowers customers to prevent cyberattacks and focus on priorities. Through our Application Framework, we foster an open ecosystem of developers, maximizing the value of existing investments in data and security infrastructure.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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