Sr Site Reliability Engineer (CDSS Advanced URL Filtering)

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks operates a vast hybrid infrastructure and is among the largest GCP customers. As a Site Reliability Engineer on the CDSS Advanced URL Filtering team you will play a key role in shaping the reliability and scalability of our systems. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies tackle complex challenges and contribute to the success of innovative solutions that protect our customers.

Your Impact

• Optimize infrastructure costs by monitoring resource utilization rightsizing instances and reducing waste to improve cost-efficiency.

• Define and manage service-level objectives (SLOs) and related metrics to ensure service reliability and align with business goals.

• Design and maintain secure cloud infrastructures that prioritize reliability scalability and efficiency.

• Develop expertise in new technologies to enhance infrastructure and operations.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure applications are production-ready and highly available.

• Automate deployments monitoring and alerting to streamline operations and improve reliability.

• Diagnose and resolve critical issues driving optimization and continuous improvement.

• Participate in on-call rotations to support seamless service operations.

• Contribute to design reviews to enhance system performance and scalability.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Creative thinker and collaborative team player with strong communication skills and a drive to make a meaningful impact.

• Cloud and Infrastructure: Expertise in provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure on public or private cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure preferred) with strong proficiency in tools like Kubernetes Terraform and Ansible.

• Database Operation: Proficiency in managing and optimizing SQL and NoSQL databases including operational tasks such as provisioning scaling monitoring backups and troubleshooting. Experience with platforms like MongoDB Redis PostgreSQL and MySQL is preferred.

• System Reliability: Deep understanding of distributed systems high-availability architecture and strategies for scaling and optimizing system performance.

• Service-Level Management: Proven experience defining and managing SLAs SLOs and SLIs to ensure service reliability and business alignment.

• Cost Optimization: Expertise in monitoring and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs including resource allocation and implementing efficient practices.

• Load Balancing and Networking: Hands-on experience with Envoy or similar load balancing technologies along with strong Linux system administration and advanced network troubleshooting skills.

• Automation and Development: Advanced skills in programming and automation using Python Golang or shell scripting to streamline operations and enhance system reliability.

• Production Deployment and Best Practices: Proven experience managing production deployments ensuring system stability and enforcing DevOps best practices.

• Monitoring and CI/CD: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred) and expertise in designing robust monitoring and alerting systems.

• Collaboration and Communication: Exceptional ability to work with cross-functional teams communicate effectively and provide technical leadership.

• Mindset and Motivation: Self-disciplined self-managed and self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership urgency and drive. Passionate about infrastructure and monitoring as code.

• Education and Experience: BS/MS in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field with 3 years of hands-on industry experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a similar role managing and improving complex systems at scale..

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $120000 - $195000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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  .

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time