Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks runs a large infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure. This includes automation, architecture, performance, observability, troubleshooting, security, and reliability.

Our Infrastructure Platform stack includes Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Docker, GCP, AWS, Vault, Kafka, MySQL, Python, Bash, and Go. 

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

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 7+ years as a engineer in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or System Engineering

• 7+ years building high availability, scalable cloud native applications on AWS or GCP

• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience required

• Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm

• Expertise in infrastructure automation tasks using Python and shell scripting.

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or DevOps

• Expertise in public or private cloud

• Solid experience in Kubernetes and containers

• Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting

• Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Java, Golang, and shell scripting to automate tasks

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and ArgoCD 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

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are continually inno