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This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters. Job Summary
CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company is seeking a skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you will serve as a senior hands-on technical leader responsible for designing and implementing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure within a FedRAMP-compliant environment. You will work alongside cross-functional teams to drive platform visibility, accelerate CI/CD maturity, and evolve our cloud infrastructure and automation,
Responsibilities:
- Design Implementation of AWS infrastructure components such as VPCs, EC2, EKS, S3, tagging schemes, CloudFormation, etc.
- Develop and improve automation for deployment, configuration, and management of cloud-based infrastructure and software
- Design and implement automated solutions to streamline FedRAMP compliance activities (Inventory, Vulnerability Management, etc.).
- Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and configuration-management solutions across Windows and Linux
- Design and implement solutions that improve high availability, resiliency, recoverability, and operational reliability
- Build and enhance cloud-based monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational tooling
- Provide support and guidance to junior engineers to create efficiencies within the team
- Deep understanding of the latest tech solutions, trends, and remain hands-on with implementation and troubleshooting while helping drive technical decisions
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code templates, engineering standards, and technical documentation
- Work with the Team Leads within the group to identify areas of improvement, contribute to technical roadmaps , and advocate to the Product Management group.
- Evaluate and integrate AI-powered tooling into engineering workflows - including AI-assisted code review, anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, and automated remediation.
Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, or managing AWS infrastructure
- 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, production engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Strong experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, or equivalent technologies
- Strong understanding of web services, databases, distributed systems, and supporting infrastructure
- Experience designing for backup, restore, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Strong programming experience in Python, Java, C#, C++, or another modern programming language
- Experience with platform observability and monitoring using tools such as Datadog or similar technologies
- Experience supporting enterprise SaaS or cloud-hosted production environments
- Familiarity with FedRAMP requirements and how they influence network segmentation, encryption, identity, access management, and cloud-system design.
- Familiarity with NIST 800-53 controls as they relate to FedRAMP, cloud environments, and AI systems design.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex initiatives, influence engineering decisions, establish reusable engineering patterns, and mentor other engineers.
- Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and experience improving build, test, deployment, and release processes.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across software, cloud infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder) to meet applicable federal access and security requirements.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
$156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yr Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.