Sr DevOps Engineer; Prisma AIRS

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.

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.

Your Career with Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world’s 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 address. In 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.

• Cloud & Orchestration – GCP (primary), Kubernetes, AWS, Containerization tools
• CI/CD & Git Ops – Git Lab CI, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Git Hub Actions
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC), Helm, Terraform, Cue
• Languages & Core Tooling – Python (modern, typed), Go (highly desired), BASH, Rego
• AI Coding Assistants – Claude (leveraged to boost productivity)

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose influence extends across the entire Prisma AIRS organization. You won’t just be operating infrastructure; you’ll be building the platform that defines how we build and ship software.

• 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 Git Ops and progressive delivery across the organization, leveraging the Argo suite to provide safe, automated, and observable deployment pipelines that engineering teams can trust, directly improving the quality and velocity of our product.
• Elevate the organization’s 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.

Your

Experience:

We’re 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.

• Innate Sense of Ownership and a Collaborative Spirit – a highly technical, self‑motivated contributor who sees projects through from idea to production and excels at navigating the organization, acting as a central point of…