Palo Alto Networks
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
$152K–$245K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 17, 2026
- Experience
- Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability; no number of years stated.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates reliable, secure cloud infrastructure for the Wildfire malware protection service, with a focus on scalability and high availability.
What you'll do
- Develop infrastructure tools and automation, and automate service deployments, monitoring, and alerting.
- Ensure applications are production-ready, scalable, secure, and reliable; troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis.
- Participate in on-call rotations, design reviews, and SRE mentorship and culture-building.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional or military experience.
- Expertise with configuration management frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, or Kubernetes; experience managing autoscaling applications in Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Go, plus strong Linux administration and network troubleshooting skills.
- Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability, and expertise in public cloud (GCP or AWS).
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and GitHub.
Pay
$151,600.00 - $245,300.00/yr (USD; base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go
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