# Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

- Company: Palo Alto Networks
- What the company does: Implement Zero Trust, Secure your Network, Cloud workloads, Hybrid Workforce, Leverage Threat Intelligence & Security Consulting. Cybersecurity Services & Education for CISO’s, Head of Infrastructure, Network Security Engineers, Cloud Architects & SOC Managers. Backed by Greylock, Sequoia and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Office - USA - CA - Headquarters
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-11-07
- Apply by: 2026-12-22
- Apply: https://paloaltonetworks.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/panwexternalcareers/job/Office---USA---CA---Headquarters/Principal-Site-Reliability-Engineer_JR-024014?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer within the Cortex DevOps team, you will serve as a technical leader driving the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence strategy across the Cortex platform. You will partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to influence architecture decisions, establish reliability standards, and build innovative solutions improving service availability and performance at global scale. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ minimum years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related disciplines
- Deep expertise with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and modern observability platforms
- Strong understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and operational excellence
- Expert knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or similar cloud platforms
- Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures
- Strong software engineering and automation skills using Python, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps practices


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