Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AIOps)
Palo Alto Networks8 days ago
Base Salary
$152k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive organization-level SRE and platform engineering strategy.
- Architect highly available, multi-region, multi-cloud systems on GCP and AWS.
- Establish SLO/SLI standards, error budgets, and reliability governance.
- Lead platform abstractions, Terraform modules, Kubernetes platforms, and GitOps practices.
- Drive observability architecture and reduce MTTR at scale.
- Ensure services are production-ready, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized.
- Lead SEV-1 incidents, root-cause analysis, and executive-level communications.
- Influence product and engineering teams on architecture and reliability decisions.
- Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical authority across organizations.
- Drive automation, self-service platforms, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Strong experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems on AWS and GCP.
- Proven experience driving cross-team or organization-level technical initiatives.
- Strong expertise in Terraform, Helm, or similar infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Deep experience with automation using Python, Go, and shell scripting.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes at scale.
- Advanced knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed-systems debugging.
- Experience with GitLab-based CI/CD and ArgoCD-based GitOps.
- Strong background in observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and tracing.
- Ability to lead incident management and complex production troubleshooting.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence directors and VPs.
- Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and setting engineering standards.
- Strong ownership focused on scalability, reliability, and long-term architecture.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $152,300.00-$246,400.00, with potential restricted stock units and bonus.
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Immigration sponsorship is eligible for this role.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache HadoopApache KafkaAWSDatadogDockerElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPrometheusPythonSpinnakerTensorFlowTerraformVault
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.