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, Pub/sub, Bigtable, Memorystore, Bigquery, RabbitMq, Kafka, MySQL, 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.

The Team

Wildfire is the industry's largest cloud-based malware protection engine that uses machine learning and crowdsourced intelligence to instantly prevent up to 95% of unknown malware variants inline without compromising business productivity. Wildfire infrastructure team supports the scalability and high availability of Wildfire clouds.

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

Required Experience

8+ years of experience
BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience
Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes
Proficient in Python and/or Go
Expertise in managing applications in the Kubernetes cluster with autoscaling enabled
Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability
Expertise in the public cloud (GCP or AWS), especially in GCP
Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Golang, and shell scripting to automate tasks
Experience 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

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Principal Site Reliability Engineer