Palo Alto Networks · 2 months ago
Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Prisma AIRS)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $245K/yr
5+ years expPalo Alto Networks is committed to being the cybersecurity partner of choice and is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer for their Prisma AIRS team. The role involves designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications while collaborating closely with software engineers and researchers to enhance AI security capabilities.
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Responsibilities
Operate Prisma AIRS Cloud Services through contemporary Reliability Engineering practices
Design, Build, Operate and Secure Cloud-Native Microservice Applications at Global Scale
Own End-to-End Service Delivery in Production - Availability, Performance, Scalability, Security
Partner with Software & ML Engineers to design and build new capabilities and features
Banish toil through automation - from shell scripting to cluster orchestration to dynamic CI pipelines
Gain a deep understanding of how we deliver AI Security; you'll be able troubleshoot end-to-end a production issue from an inbound HTTP request, through the network, webserver, model inferencing, database, down to the hardware layer
Qualification
Required
You must be an expert in all things Kubernetes; you have a deep understanding of Kubernetes concepts, experience with building and operating production applications in multi-cluster environments, writing Helm charts from scratch and interacting with the Kubernetes API
You must be an expert in either GCP or AWS, with at least 5 years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure at scale
You must have significant Software Engineering / Development experience building applications in Go and/or Python
You should have demonstrated experience in network operations, such as cloud networking, network security, and/or distributed computing systems
You should have demonstrated experience in Linux administration, particularly in the context of cloud-native distributed systems, container runtimes, or Linux server fleets
You should have experience with Relational Databases and SQL; you know how to read, write and refactor SQL queries, identify opportunities for and design secondary indexes, manage database objects such as tables, views, stored procedures, and perform backup/restore operations
You should have experience designing, building and maintaining CI and/or GitOps pipelines for complex multi-application/multi-environment projects
You should have experience in building application observability through Prometheus / OpenTelemetry metrics, Structured Logging or Distributed Tracing systems
Preferred
You may have practical experience in Information Security, such as Cloud / Application / Network Security and are familiar with compliance programs such as SOC2, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP or control frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST 800-53, OWASP or others
You may have experience with running LLM / Machine Learning Inferencing Servers at scale across heterogeneous multi-GPU cloud environments
Benefits
Restricted stock units
Bonus
Company
Palo Alto Networks
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