Sr Staff DevOps Engineer (Prisma AIRS)

Your Career

With Prisma AIRS Palo Alto Networks is building the worlds most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models applications and agents creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot response Prisma AIRS delivers model security posture management AI red teaming and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime.

This role is located at our dynamic Seattle WA office - in office 3 days a week. This is not a remote role.

Our Stack

Our platform is built on a modern cloud-native foundation centered around Kubernetes. We value deep expertise in a few core areas and a strong desire to master the technologies that drive our platform forward.

Cloud & Orchestration

GCP (primary) Kubernetes AWS Containerization tools

CI / CD & GitOps

GitLab CI Argo CD Argo Rollouts Github actions

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC) Helm Terraform Cue

Languages & Core Tooling

Python (modern typed) Go (highly desired) BASH rego

We actively leverage AI Coding Assistants like Claude to boost our productivity.

Your Impact

As a Sr. Staff Engineer you will be a technical leader whose influence extends across the entire Prisma AIRS organization. You wont just be operating infrastructure; youll be building the platform that defines how we build and ship software. Your impact will be measured by your ability to :

Act as a force multiplier for our engineering teams by building and evangelizing a cohesive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that simplifies builds safety into and accelerates the path to production.

Drive the adoption of GitOps and progressive delivery across the organization. Leveraging the Argo suite you will provide safe automated and observable deployment pipelines that engineering teams can trust directly improving the quality and velocity of our product.

Elevate the organizations cloud-native expertise by setting the standard for Kubernetes and GCP best practices. Your guidance and the patterns you create will directly influence the architecture reliability and security of our core products.

Architect and operate a highly available secure and scalable cloud infrastructure. Your work will form the resilient foundation that Prisma AIRS is built upon ensuring our customers are protected around the clock.

• Reduce engineering toil and eliminate entire classes of problems through insightful automation self-service tooling and observability frameworks. You will give time back to every engineer in the AIRS org.

Qualifications : Your Experience

Were looking for a seasoned platform engineer who is not just a master of their craft but also a catalyst for the teams around them. You thrive on solving complex problems from first principles and have a passion for building systems that empower others. While we value a diverse range of experience the ideal candidate will embody the following :

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging how we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales / commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147000 - $185000 / YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple : we cant 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   .

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No.  Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C / C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1