Principal Site Reliability Engineer (ADEM)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$152k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive SRE and DevOps initiatives involving CI/CD and AIOps to advance self-healing infrastructure.
- Architect Golden Paths for service delivery with SLOs, error budgets, and automated canary analysis.
- Design, build, and operate secure, reliable cloud infrastructure supporting high-scale synthetic monitoring and Real User Monitoring.
- Ensure applications are production-ready, scalable, and resilient in collaboration with developers, researchers, and data scientists.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code and Monitoring as Code tools and automation frameworks.
- Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues and drive preventive improvements.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen due to Federal Government requirements.
- At least 7 years of engineering experience in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
- Proficiency with code-assistance and AI productivity tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or GitHub Copilot.
- Expertise building highly available, scalable cloud-native applications on GCP or AWS.
- Expertise with configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Java; Kafka or Apache Pulsar experience is a plus.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, GKE or EKS, container networking, and Linux internals.
- Experience with GitOps tools and principles, including GitLab CI and Argo CD.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP, SOC 2, security frameworks, and policy-as-code automation.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional or military experience.
Benefits
- Primarily office-based work with flexibility when needed.
- Annual base salary range of $152,300.00–$246,400.00.
- Potential eligibility for restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are provided by Palo Alto Networks.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaArgo CDAWSBashDockerGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmJavaKubernetesLinuxMySQLPrometheusPythonTerraformVault
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.