Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto 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 youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre 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!

Job Summary

The Team

Your Career:

Join a team of senior engineers operating in a large-scale multi-cloud production environment supporting tens of thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. This is not a typical SRE role youll work at the core of a complex high-impact system alongside experienced DevOps professionals in a fast-paced cybersecurity-focused organization.

Your Impact:

• Own and operate large-scale global production environments across multiple cloud providers (GCP AWS Azure)

• Actively monitor investigate and resolve incidents triggered by automated alerting systems (PagerDuty / Incident Response)

• Drive end-to-end troubleshooting across complex distributed systems with high context switching

• Design deploy and improve monitoring and observability systems (e.g. Prometheus Grafana) not just react to alerts

• Collaborate closely with internal teams (CX CS Engineering) to ensure system reliability and performance

• Work hands-on with modern DevOps and infrastructure tools including Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows

• Develop and maintain automation and tooling (primarily in Python)

• Gain deep understanding of system architecture and interconnected services

• Contribute to a culture of operational excellence in a high-scale high-availability environment

• Champion asynchronous communication documentation and tooling standards to ensure seamless collaboration across time zones and fully distributed teams.

• On call responsibilities:
  Daytime hours (12:0020:00 CET/CEST based on candidate location and team coverage needs)

Occasional weekends and holidays (rotation-based)

Your experience:

• 5 years of experience in SRE roles in production environments at scale

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (GCP or AWS required)

• Experience building and configuring monitoring systems (e.g. Prometheus Grafana)

• Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps tools (GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins Flux)

• Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation

• Proven success in a fully remote or distributed team environment demonstrating strong self-management and time organization.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a passion for incident handling

• Ability to work in fast-paced environments with high context switching

• Highly responsive proactive and ownership-driven

• Strong collaboration and communication skills

• Curious mindset and eagerness to learn

Qualifications

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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