Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AIOps)
Palo Alto NetworksOffice - USA - CA - Headquarters$152k – $245kPosted 22 April 2026
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Job Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
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.
Job Summary
Your Career
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, Tensorflow, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Hadoop, MySQL, Percona, MongoDB, 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.
Your Impact
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
Qualifications
Your Experience
BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm
Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability
Expertise in private or public cloud
Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Golang, and shell scripting to automate tasks
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and GitHub preferred
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
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Compensation Disclosure
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. A description of our employee benefits may be found here .
$151,600.00 - $245,300.00/yr
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