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.
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks runs a large hybrid infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure. This includes automation, architecture, performance, metrics, troubleshooting, security, and reliability.
Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Gitlab, Spinnaker, Pub/sub, Bigtable, Memorystore, Bigquery, RabbitMq, Kafka, MySQL, Python, and Go. We don't expect you to know all these, but we do expect you to learn the ones needed for this role.
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
Mentor and champion SRE culture
Participate in design reviews
Your Experience
BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience
Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes
Proficient in Python and/or Go
Expertise in managing applications in the Kubenetes cluster with autoscaling enabled
Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability
Expertise in the public cloud (GCP or AWS), especially in GCP
Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Golang, and shell scripting to automate tasks
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and GitHub 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
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 how we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don't 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 environmen t.
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 $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (http://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .
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Our Commitment
We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .
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.
