Staff DevOps Engineer

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.

Job Description

Your Career

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and ownership-driven Staff Engineer. You will join a team that is transforming the way Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering Platforms are built and enhancing Engineering Productivity.

Your Impact

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

Automate operational processes using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI / CD pipelines.

Implement and monitor SLIs / SLOs / SLAs to measure and improve service reliability.

Build and maintain observability systems — metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.

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

Collaborate with developers to design systems with resilience and failure-tolerance in mind.

Contribute to continuous improvement in deployment, configuration, and release management.

Optimize cost and resource utilization across environments.

Qualifications

Your Experience

2+ years of experience as a Software Dev

A deep understanding of Engineering Productivity tools and platforms

Hands on experience with configuration management systems (ansible or equivalent) infrastructure as code tools (terraform, helm) and secrets management

Should have worked in any one public cloud and has good understanding of Cloud TechnologiesLinux, containers, kubernetes experience

Development experience preferably in Python / Go

API Development with web frameworks (like FastAPI)

Experience with build and test frameworks

Significant SRE experience

Preferred

Prior experience building CI / CD using Gitlab, Vault, Artifactory, Spinnaker etc.

Fullstack experience (React or equivalent)

knowledge on ML / AI, MLOps etc.

AWS and GCP experience

Additional Information

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team. We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers. They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work.

You’ll be driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company. Join the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams who are on the front line of defense against cyberattacks.

We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill every time we beat the bad guys.

We hope to meet you soon!

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.