Senior Staff SRE, Observability & Cloud Reliability

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff SRE for the Cortex Observability team in Santa Clara. You will design, operate, and improve a large-scale GCP observability stack, partnering with engineering to deliver actionable insights into system health.

You will lead cloud monitoring initiatives, automate remediation, manage incidents, and ensure high reliability through incident response, on-call coverage, and continuous improvement in cloud-native monitoring practices.

Responsibilities

• Cloud expertise in monitoring platforms, especially GCP.
• Improve monitoring, alerts and metrics across services.
• Manage incidents to minimize service impact.
• Automate complex monitoring tasks and remediation.
• Stay current with new observability tech and apply where suitable.
• Provide follow-the-sun on-call coverage.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure reliability and availability.

Skills

Cloud expertise

Monitoring

Incident management

Automation

SRE practices

On-call

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff SRE for the Cortex Observability team in Santa Clara. You will design, operate, and improve a large-scale GCP observability stack, partnering with engineering to deliver actionable insights into system health.

You will lead cloud monitoring initiatives, automate remediation, manage incidents, and ensure high reliability through incident response, on-call coverage, and continuous improvement in cloud-native monitoring practices.