Palo Alto Networks
Principal Site Reliability Engineer (ADEM)
$152K–$246K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years as an engineer in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or System Engineering.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional/military experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- No immigration sponsorship; the employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
About the job
Leads reliability engineering for ADEM services, building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and automation for global digital experience monitoring and self-healing.
What you'll do
- Drive SRE, DevOps, CI/CD, and AIOps initiatives, including automated service delivery paths with SLOs, error budgets, and canary analysis.
- Design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure and develop Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code, and automation tools.
- Lead root cause analysis of critical production issues and collaborate across teams to improve application readiness, scalability, and resilience.
What they ask for
- Must be a U.S. Citizen due to Federal Government requirements.
- 7+ years as an engineer in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or System Engineering.
- Expertise in scalable cloud-native applications on GCP or AWS; configuration management and IaC; Kubernetes; programming; and GitOps tools.
- Proficiency with code assist and AI productivity tools such as Claude code, Cursor, Windsurf, or GitHub Copilot.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kafka or Apache Pulsar.
- GCP is preferred over AWS.
Pay
$152,300.00 - $246,400.00/yr (USD, base salary)
Tools
Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, GCP, AWS
AI focus
Contribute to AIOps initiatives toward self-healing infrastructure and use code assist and AI productivity tools to accelerate development and troubleshooting.
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