Principal Site Reliability Engineer Job at Palo Alto Networks (Santa Clara)

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Palo Alto Networks

Location:
United States , Santa Clara

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

151600.00 - 245300.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Gitlab, Spinnaker, Pub/sub, Bigtable, Memorystore, Bigquery, RabbitMq, Kafka, MySQL, Python, and Go. We don’t expect you to know all these, but we do expect you to learn the ones needed for this role. Wildfire is the industry's largest cloud-based malware protection engine that uses machine learning and crowdsourced intelligence to instantly prevent up to 95% of unknown malware variants inline without compromising business productivity. Wildfire infrastructure team supports the scalability and high availability of Wildfire clouds.

Job Responsibility:

Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps
Develop expertise in new technologies
Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
Design, build, and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure
Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
Develop tools and automation frameworks
Automate robust deployment of robust services
Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
Participate with SRE and Dev teams in the on-call rotation
Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
Mentor and champion SRE culture
Participate in design reviews

Requirements:

BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience
Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes
Proficient in Python and/or Go
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
Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
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
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
Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

Nice to have:

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and GitHub

What we offer:

restricted stock units and a bonus

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 24, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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