Palo Alto Networks · 8 hours ago
Sr Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SASE)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$220K/yr - $270K/yrPalo Alto Networks is dedicated to being the cybersecurity partner of choice. They are seeking a proactive and innovative Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer to ensure their services are reliable, scalable, and efficient while leveraging AI tools to enhance operational practices.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity
Hiring Manager
Travis Dungan
Responsibilities
Develop Intelligent Automation: Design, build, and maintain automation solutions to handle everything from provisioning and deployment to failure detection and remediation
Empower Engineers with Self-Service Tools: Build and maintain user-friendly self-service tooling—including internal web portals, Slack bots, and automated JIRA workflows—to streamline developer and operational tasks
Define and Uphold Reliability Standards: Establish and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to meet and exceed our Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Lead Incident Response: Act as a key leader during production incidents, driving resolution, and conducting blameless postmortems to prevent future occurrences
Leverage AI for SRE: Utilize AI-powered tools for advanced observability, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and automating complex operational tasks to enhance system reliability
Build for Scale: Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement scalable, highly available, and secure infrastructure
Qualification
Required
Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or in a similar software engineering role
Strong proficiency in a programming language such as Python or Go
Experience building self-service tools (e.g., internal web portals, Slack integrations) to improve developer productivity and reduce operational toil
Deep understanding of the principles of SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs and experience implementing them
Hands-on experience with incident management protocols and participating in on-call rotations
Familiarity with using AI/ML tools in an operational context for tasks like log analysis, anomaly detection, or automated remediation
Proficiency with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker)
A strong problem-solving mindset and a passion for continuous improvement and learning
Benefits
Restricted stock units
Bonus
Company
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Founded in 2005
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65MKey Investors
Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners
2012-07-20IPO
2008-11-03Series C· $10M
2008-08-18Series C· $27M
Leadership Team
Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
Recent News
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