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 believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks operates a massive hybrid-cloud ecosystem. As a Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer, you will be a cornerstone of the team architecting the tooling and frameworks that manage this scale. Your mission is to push the boundaries of infrastructure efficiency, performance, and security through high-level automation and visionary architectural design.

Our stack is diverse: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kafka, Redis, Pub/Sub, BigTable, VertexAI, BigQuery, MongoDB, Python, and Go. While we don’t expect mastery of every tool on day one, we expect a seasoned engineer capable of mastering and integrating these technologies to solve enterprise-scale challenges.

Your Impact

• Manage and improve reliability, performance, and scalability of production and pre-production systems.

• Spearhead the transition toward fully autonomous operational processes using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and sophisticated CI/CD pipelines.

• Define and govern SLIs/SLOs/SLAs to ensure rigorous service standards and measurable reliability improvements.

• Build and oversee comprehensive observability ecosystems—integrating metrics, logging, and distributed tracing to provide deep system insights.

• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response; drive post-incident reviews and RCA.

• Collaborate with developers, researchers, and security experts to bake resilience and fault tolerance into the initial design phase of a product.

• Design, deploy, and operate secure, high-availability cloud infrastructure while aggressively optimizing for cost and resource efficiency.

• Mentor junior and senior engineers alike, championing a high-performance DevOps culture and leading complex design reviews.

Your Experience 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure.

• Expertise in managing distributed and autoscaled applications in Kubernetes clusters

• Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Helm, Terraform, or Kustomize

• Extensive experience managing hyper-scale environments within GCP, AWS, or OCI.

• Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting

• Proficiency in Python, Golang, or Rust to build custom tooling, manage data systems, and automate intricate workflows.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and GitHub preferred

• A proven ability to dissect and debug complex distributed systems handling high-volume, mission-critical transactions.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and rally teams around technical initiatives.

• A high degree of ownership, urgency, and the self-discipline to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

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 environment.

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  [email protected].

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.