Palo Alto Networks
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
$175K–$284K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; preferred: at least 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating AI tools, LLMs, or predictive analytics into deployment workflows.
- Education
- BS or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
About the job
Build and lead cloud reliability software, infrastructure automation, and AI-driven systems for highly available, globally distributed cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Set architectural direction across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including AI workflows and infrastructure automation.
- Develop telemetry, security, and autonomous agent systems for auditing, patching, scaling, and incident resolution.
- Define technical direction for Kubernetes fleets, predictive capacity planning, and AI-driven traffic routing.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in Cloud Software Engineering, SRE, or Distributed Systems Infrastructure; BS or equivalent.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems, multi-cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), and container orchestration.
- Software engineering fundamentals in TypeScript (Node.js), Go, or Python.
Nice to have
- 2+ years integrating AI tools, LLMs, or predictive analytics into deployment workflows.
- Experience with LLM APIs, vector databases, prompt engineering, agentic SRE workflows, or intelligent delivery pipelines.
Pay
$175,400.00 - $283,800.00/yr (USD; base salary)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, TypeScript (Node.js), Go, Python, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Build and integrate LLM workflows and autonomous agents for infrastructure refactoring, IAM auditing, vulnerability patching, predictive scaling, incident analysis, defect resolution, traffic routing, and capacity planning.
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