Senior Staff SRE, Observability & GCP Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; California; On-site; USD 127,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff SRE for the Cortex Observability team in California. The role focuses on operating and enhancing a large-scale GCP environment, building observable and performant systems, and delivering clear insights into service health.

You will collaborate with engineering to improve operability, automate monitoring tasks, and provide follow-the-sun coverage for production reliability. The position emphasizes real-time problem solving and scalable operations.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms, especially GCP.
• Strong monitoring and metrics experience across large-scale systems.
• Proven incident management capabilities and resolving complex outages.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain the Cortex Observability large-scale GCP environment.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve observability systems and logging.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve product operability and reliability.
• Automate complex monitoring and alerting tasks, including remediation and auto-scaling.
• Provide follow-the-sun on-call coverage for production observability infrastructure.
• Stay current with new technologies and evaluate them for operations improvements.

Skills

GCP

Cloud monitoring

Incident management

Automation

On-call

Team collaboration

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff SRE for the Cortex Observability team in California. The role focuses on operating and enhancing a large-scale GCP environment, building observable and performant systems, and delivering clear insights into service health.

You will collaborate with engineering to improve operability, automate monitoring tasks, and provide follow-the-sun coverage for production reliability. The position emphasizes real-time problem solving and scalable operations.