Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Palo Alto Networks

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$126,500–$204,600 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role pays less than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $144,875–$215,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $166k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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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 51 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

The Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer joins the Cortex Observability team to operate and maintain a large-scale GCP environment. This role focuses on the design, implementation, and continuous enhancement of comprehensive observability systems for the SecOps platform, which includes XDR, XSIAM, XSOAR, and XPANSE. Key responsibilities include optimizing cloud infrastructure, improving monitoring processes, managing high cardinality metrics, implementing tracing, and operationalizing large scale logging solutions. You will build tools for cloud operations, automate complex alerting tasks, and provide follow-the-sun operational coverage. The position requires deep expertise in GCP, cloud-native technologies, and incident management processes. You will collaborate with engineering teams to ensure service reliability, availability, and actionable insights into system performance and health while evaluating cutting-edge technologies for operational impact.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Operate and maintain a large-scale GCP environment using cloud-native technologies.
  • Design and implement comprehensive observability systems including high cardinality metrics, tracing, and large-scale logging.
  • Improve monitoring processes and alerts to detect system problems before they impact customers.
  • Automate complex monitoring tasks and build tools for automated remediation and auto-scaling.
  • Manage incident response processes to ensure efficient resolution of production system issues.
  • Provide follow-the-sun operational coverage for the production observability infrastructure.
  • Influence product operability by working with engineering teams to ensure service reliability and availability.

What we're looking for

  • Deep knowledge of modern observability and monitoring tools and practices.
  • Experience managing high cardinality metrics, implementing tracing, and operationalizing large scale logging solutions.
  • Expertise in monitoring cloud platforms, particularly GCP, and leveraging cloud-native technologies.
  • Experience improving monitoring processes, alerts, and metrics for services.
  • Experience with incident management processes to ensure efficient resolution of system issues.
  • Ability to automate complex monitoring and alerting tasks by building tools for cloud operations.
  • Ability to provide follow-the-sun operational coverage for production observability infrastructure.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to influence product operability and ensure service reliability.

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