Job Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

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.

The Production Engineering team is responsible for building, scaling, and operating the cloud platform for the CyberArk Machine Identity Management products. Our solutions are trusted by the world’s largest organizations to protect and manage TLS machine identities, SSH machine identities, and code signing identities.

As a Senior Staff Production Engineer you will play a key role in designing and evolving the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our cloud platform. You will work across infrastructure, services, and engineering teams to ensure systems are resilient, observable, and able to operate at scale.

This role is ideal for engineers who combine strong infrastructure expertise with a systems mindset, and who are comfortable driving improvements across production environments, tooling, and engineering practices.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and evolve highly available cloud infrastructure platforms with a focus on scalability, resilience, and reliability
• Lead improvements across production systems, including performance, availability, and incident response
• Drive and standardize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to improve consistency and reduce operational overhead
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support fast, secure, and reliable software delivery at scale
• Partner with development teams to improve system reliability, observability, and cloud-native design patterns
• Define and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies across distributed systems
• Lead incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation strategies
• Identify and eliminate operational toil through automation and system improvements
• Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the bar for production engineering practices

Qualifications

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Deep expertise managing and scaling Kubernetes environments (EKS, AKS, or GKE)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi)
• Proven experience designing and maintaining complex CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)
• Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling
• Experience operating in high-scale, 24/7 production environments with ownership of incident response and reliability
• Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, VPC, mTLS)
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work across teams

Nice to Have

• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices in cloud environments
• Experience building or improving observability platforms and tooling
• Professional certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator)
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve operational workflows and automation

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here

$126,000.00 - $203,500.00/yr

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes