Principal Site Reliability Engineer (CIPE)

• As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as the technical authority for our cloud-native infrastructure. You aren’t just managing servers; you are architecting the reliability, scalability, and security of a massive Kubernetes ecosystem.
• We are looking for a visionary who balances deep systems expertise with a modern, AI-augmented development workflow. You will lead the evolution of our GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) environment, championing GitOps best practices and integrating advanced security protocols directly into our delivery pipelines
• Infrastructure Leadership: Architect and oversee large-scale Kubernetes clusters in GKE, ensuring high availability, performance tuning, and cost optimization
• GitOps & Orchestration: Design and refine complex CI/CD lifecycles using ArgoCD, moving toward a fully declarative infrastructure-as-code model
• Security Engineering: Implement and manage security scanning tools (e.g., Prisma Cloud, Snyk, or GKE native security) to ensure container integrity and shift-left security compliance
• Automation & Tooling: Develop sophisticated automation scripts and internal tools using Python to eliminate manual toil and improve system observability
• AI-Driven Development: Lean into the future of engineering by utilizing Cursor and Claude to accelerate coding, debugging, and documentation tasks
• Incident Management: Act as a final escalation point for complex infrastructure outages, conducting blameless post-mortems to drive systemic improvements

### Benefits

• Healthcare: We value your health and provide options so you can choose what best supports your lifestyle and personal health goals. Various nationwide plans — including Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente, Delta Dental, VSP, and more — are available to you and your family. Our providers offer the flexibility you want and the coverage you need
• Wellness: With a large on-site gym and daily, instructor-led exercise classes at HQ in Santa Clara, Palo Alto Networks actively supports employee fitness. Our juice bar, Gym & Juice, features fresh juice blends, a quick and nutritious option pre- or post-workout. And our ongoing wellness speaker series highlights the latest trends in health and wellness
• Development: Professional development is serious business at Palo Alto Networks, where the Talent Development team offers 25+ courses to help employees boost their careers and develop leadership capability
• Financial: Most roles are eligible for equity grants, and we now offer new hires a quarterly vesting schedule right away. We want you to be fairly compensated and rewarded as soon as you make an impact – on our team, that happens immediately! And because we consider every employee a stakeholder in our long-term success, we offer an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a 24-month lookback. From life insurance to health savings accounts, we provide ways to help you protect and grow your wealth. Palo Alto Networks offers both traditional and Roth 401(k) options, along with a company match of 50% to a max annual amount of $1,000
• Time Off: In addition to paid corporate holidays, Flexible Time Off programs empower our employees to balance their work schedules with personal time off. We offer 12 weeks of full pay for medical leave and 6 weeks of full pay for parental leave. As a company with strong ties to the military and veterans, we also offer 26 weeks of full pay for military leave
• Perks: Our corporate discount program provides employees with significant discounts on merchandise, travel and entertainment. We offer many on-site perks at headquarters, including cafeterias, fuel service, dry cleaning service, EV charging stations, and a company store. We also provide complimentary drinks, fresh fruit, and snacks in break rooms across our campus to help everyone power through the day.

Life at Palo Alto Network- Modern Workflow: Experience (or strong desire) using AI-pair programming tools like Cursor and Claude to multiply personal and team productivity
- Kubernetes Mastery: Expert-level experience managing production K8s workloads (preferably within GKE, but will also consider EKS)
- Deep understanding of Networking, Storage, and RBAC
- CI/CD & GitOps: Hands-on expertise with ArgoCD and modern pipeline runners (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins)
- Programming: Proficient in Python for systems programming and automation
- Security Mindset: Proven experience integrating security scanning and compliance checks within a containerized environment