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Principal Platform Infrastructure Engineer (SRE Enablement)

Menlo Security· Infrastructure
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RemoteFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Platform Infrastructure Engineering responsible for building and operating Menlo Security's Infrastructure Platform with a focus on security, observability, multi-region resilience, and automation. Global, cloud-native environment using GKE, VMs, Terraform, Spacelift, Helm; emphasizes IaC, reliability, and multi-tenancy.

Responsibilities

  • - Architect and govern the design, deployment, and operation of high-scale, multi-region VM and Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP and AWS, ensuring maximum resilience and performance across all environments.
  • - Drive cross-functional technical alignment with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Security teams, as architectural consultant and leader for initiatives involving capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cloud-native application design.
  • - Define and enforce organizational best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Spacelift, ensuring consistency and security across all provisioned cloud resources (GCP/AWS).
  • - Design and manage complex, multi-layer configuration management and deployment workflows that optimize reliability and operational efficiency across the entire platform.
  • - Set the technical direction and implement comprehensive observability solutions (Grafana Cloud, Prometheus/Mimir, OTel collectors), establishing organization-wide standards for system visibility, metrics, and alerting.
  • - Define the strategic architecture and lifecycle management of core platform services, including certificate management, DNS automation, ingress controllers, and service mesh networking (Cilium).
  • - Proactively identify and lead large-scale strategic efforts to eliminate technical toil and improve operational efficiency through tooling, automation, and advanced CI/CD pipelines.
  • - Mentor and provide deep technical guidance to both junior and senior engineers within Platform Infrastructure Engineering.
  • - Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation as part of a globally distributed team, responding to incidents and driving post-incident reviews to ensure long-term solutions and process improvements.

Qualifications

  • - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
  • - Proficiency in common programming & scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go).
  • - Understanding of network topologies, protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, UDP, TLS) and enterprise connectivity solutions.
  • - Kubernetes expertise including cluster administration, RBAC, networking, workload management, and troubleshooting across production environments.
  • - Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
  • - Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services including GKE, VPC, Cloud DNS, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, IAM, Gemini Code Assist, and Workload Identity.
  • - Prior experience 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.

Skills

Required:Programming/ScriptingCloud & InfrastructureIaC & GitOpsObservabilitySecurity & Reliability
Nice to have:Mentoring

Benefits

  • - Competitive compensation
  • - Remote-friendly with global team
  • - Opportunity to work on security-first platform with multi-region resilience
  • - Access to advanced observability and cloud-native tooling
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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The Menlo Security Enterprise Browser solution stops phishing and malware attacks on any browser and any device across your hybrid enterprise.

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