Principal Platform Infrastructure Engineer (SRE Enablement)

The role

You will architect and operate high-scale, multi-region VM and Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP and AWS. You will drive technical alignment across teams and implement observability solutions and automation to improve operational efficiency.

What you will do

• Architect and govern the design, deployment, and operation of high-scale, multi-region VM and Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP and AWS
• Drive cross-functional technical alignment with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Security teams
• Define and enforce organizational best practices and standards for Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Spacelift
• Design and manage complex, multi-layer configuration management and deployment workflows
• Set the technical direction and implement comprehensive observability solutions
• Define the strategic architecture and lifecycle management of core platform services
• Identify and lead strategic efforts to eliminate technical toil through tools, automation, and CI/CD pipelines
• Mentor and provide deep technical guidance to junior and senior engineers
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Proficiency in common programming & scripting languages such as python, bash and go
• Understanding of network topologies, communication protocols (ie. TCP/IP, HTTP/S, UDP, TLS) and enterprise grade connectivity solutions
• Kubernetes expertise including cluster administration, RBAC, networking, workload management, and troubleshooting
• Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services including GKE, VPC networking, Cloud DNS, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, IAM, Gemini Code Assist, and Workload Identity
• Prior experience and success mentoring other junior and senior engineers
• Experience with GitOps methodologies and tools
• Clear understanding of how to use LLM code assist tools to effectively build software

About the company

Menlo Security is the leader in Browser Security for human and agentic workforces. The Menlo Browser Security Platform protects organizations from cyberattacks by stopping threats across the web, documents, and email.