Principal Site Reliability Engineer, AIOps

Palo Alto Networks

Confirmed live today High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$152,300–$246,400 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $183k
This role $199k
$133k $259k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This role pays more than 56% of similar roles. Most pay $147,200–$218,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $199k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity company offering network security, cloud security, and endpoint protection solutions.

Palo Alto Networks currently has 56 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $159,100–$257,400 across 52 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Palo Alto Networks

At a glance

TL;DR · Principal Site Reliability Engineer, AIOps

Role Posting Log in to save

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AIOps) joins a team supporting services on a large hybrid infrastructure as a major GCP customer. This role involves defining org-level SRE and platform engineering strategies while architecting highly available, multi-region, multi-cloud systems across GCP and AWS. Key responsibilities include establishing SLO/SLI standards, designing platform abstractions like Terraform modules and Kubernetes platforms, and driving end-to-end observability architecture to reduce MTTR. The candidate will lead SEV-1 incidents, mentor senior engineers, and ensure services are production-ready and cost-optimized. Required technical skills include Kubernetes at scale, Terraform, Helm, Python, Go, and shell scripting. Experience with GitLab, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki is essential for managing large-scale distributed systems and solving complex production troubleshooting problems within a high-scale environment.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $204625 from 66 postings across 16 companies.

See salary data

Skills

Kubernetes GCP AWS Terraform Python Go Docker GitOps CI/CD Ansible Vault GitLab Spinnaker Prometheus Grafana Loki Elasticsearch Kafka Hadoop MySQL MongoDB Tensorflow Helm Linux Networking

What you'll do

  • Define and drive organization-level SRE and platform engineering strategy.
  • Architect highly available, multi-region, and multi-cloud systems across GCP and AWS.
  • Establish SLO/SLI standards, error budgets, and reliability governance across teams.
  • Lead the design of platform abstractions including Terraform modules and Kubernetes platforms.
  • Drive end-to-end observability architecture to reduce MTTR at scale.
  • Lead SEV-1 incidents, perform root cause analysis, and provide executive-level communication.
  • Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical authority across the organization.
  • Drive automation, self-service platforms, and operational excellence.

What we're looking for

  • Strong experience in Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems on AWS and GCP.
  • Proven experience driving cross-team or org-level technical initiatives.
  • Strong expertise in Terraform, Helm, or similar IaC frameworks.
  • Deep experience in automation using Python, Go, and shell scripting.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes at scale.
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed systems debugging.
  • Experience with CI/CD (GitLab), GitOps (ArgoCD), and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

Related searches

More Principal Site Reliability Engineer jobs Principal Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Santa Clara All jobs at Palo Alto Networks

More like this

Similar roles

Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, CA 64 days ago $166,000–$220,000
Kubernetes Terraform Docker Python Go AWS GCP Azure CI/CD Linux Ansible Prometheus Grafana GitOps RKE2 Cilium VMware ESXi vSphere Datadog RunAI Slurm Kubeflow Volcano GitHub Enterprise Server JFrog Artifactory CircleCI Bash
Save

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

Nashville, TN 112 days ago $84,900–$209,500
Site Reliability Engineering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Python Ansible Chef PowerShell Bash Linux Windows Server infrastructure-as-code DNS Firewalls Load Balancers STIG Observability Capacity Planning incident-management Root Cause Analysis Certificates
3+ yrs exp
Save

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

Nashville, TN 112 days ago $84,900–$209,500
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Linux Windows Server Python PowerShell Bash Ansible Chef infrastructure-as-code Site Reliability Engineering Networking Cybersecurity STIG Patching Monitoring Logging Observability Capacity Planning Citrix
3+ yrs exp
Save

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

Nashville, TN 112 days ago $84,900–$209,500
Site Reliability Engineering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Python Ansible Chef PowerShell Bash Linux Windows Server infrastructure-as-code Observability Capacity Planning Incident Response STIG DNS Firewalls Load Balancers Certificates Citrix
3+ yrs exp
Save

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Nvidia

Santa Clara, CA 7 days ago $248,000–$396,750
Kubernetes Distributed Systems Python Go Terraform AWS Azure GCP OpenTelemetry infrastructure-as-code Linux TypeScript JavaScript Java Crossplane AWS CDK AWS CloudFormation Capacity Management Observability
10+ yrs exp Hybrid
Save

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Early Warning Services

Scottsdale, AZ 37 days ago $194,000–$237,000
Python Go Java Docker Kubernetes AWS Microservices Kafka SQS JMS Oracle Dynamo DB Aurora Redis Memcached Linux CI/CD Git Chef Maven Jenkins Ruby JavaScript Swarm
10+ yrs exp Hybrid
Save