Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$152k-$245kDetected 11 hours ago
PythonGoBashDistributed SystemsGitMySQLBigQueryAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDLinuxDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringKafkaRabbitMQMachine LearningCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Palo Alto Networks runs a large hybrid infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers.
  • As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure.
  • This includes automation, architecture, performance, metrics, troubleshooting, security, and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Develop expertise in new technologies
  • Design, build, and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure
  • Develop tools and automation frameworks
  • Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
  • Participate in design reviews

Requirements

  • Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes
  • Expertise in managing applications in the Kubenetes cluster with autoscaling enabled
  • Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability
  • Expertise in the public cloud (GCP or AWS), especially in GCP
  • Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Golang, and shell scripting to automate tasks
  • Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high-volume transactions
  • Required Experience
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience
  • Proficient in Python and/or Go
  • Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
  • Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
  • Passion for infrastructure and monitoring as code

Nice to have

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and GitHub preferred

Compensation

  • 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.
  • $151,600.00 - $245,300.00/yr

Benefits

  • A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Company info

  • In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
  • We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
  • Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps
  • Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
  • Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
  • Automate robust deployment of robust services
  • Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
  • Participate with SRE and Dev teams in the on-call rotation
  • Mentor and champion SRE culture

Equal opportunity

  • If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
  • equal opportunity employer.
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
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