Principal Engineer, Software - Central Cloud Platform

Your CareerWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer to join our Central Cloud Platform team, a core group that builds and maintains the foundational services for our Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Netsec organizations. We need strong platform engineers with solid experience building highly scalable, resilient, and efficient platforms that power our products.As a Principal Engineer, you will be an innovator who can challenge the status quo, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and architect elegant solutions to complex platform-level problems. You will have a massive impact on thousands of engineers by shaping the technical direction of the team and mentoring other engineers to foster a culture of engineering excellence.This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara, California headquarters campus.Your ImpactYou will be responsible for building the next generation of platforms that accelerate product development across the company. The core problems we are solving are foundational and will have a massive impact. If these challenges excite you, you are a great fit for our team.Simplify and Automate Onboarding: Design and implement streamlined platforms to radically simplify new customer and new region onboarding, reducing time-to-value and operational complexity.Build a Scalable Workflow Service: Own the creation and operation of a "Workflow as a Service" platform, providing reliable, scalable orchestration for various product teams by running technologies like multi-tenant Temporal at scale.Champion Cost Optimization: Develop a Central Cost Platform that provides a holistic inventory service, enabling product teams to "shift-left" on cost awareness, eliminate unnecessary infrastructure spending, and auto-remediate regressions.Deliver Agentic Compute as a Service: Create a robust agentic compute platform for running standalone agents, providing a secure and vetted environment with managed control plane servers for various agentic workloads.