Palo Alto Networks

Principal Software Engineer

Palo Alto Networks$126K — $204K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent military experience required
  • 5+ years in software engineering with a focus on scalable platforms and cloud technologies
  • Advanced programming skills in Python and GoLang
  • Experience designing microservices with Docker or Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Leadership experience in managing projects from start to finish
  • Exposure to configuration management tools like Ansible or Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and No-SQL technologies including MySQL, Redis, BigTable, and BigQuery

Responsibilities

  • Develop innovative security practices to address real-world challenges
  • Design and implement real-time security services for customers
  • Establish a clear architectural vision for projects
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and dev-ops for quality releases
  • Optimize time-to-release while ensuring performance and scalability
  • Lead the design and transformation of cloud-native solutions
  • Promote best practices in design, code reviews, and performance tuning
  • Mentor junior developers

Benefits

  • Immigration sponsorship available
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Access to cutting-edge security technology
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Possibility of participating in innovative cybersecurity projects
Full Job Description
Job Summary

Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team - We are at the core of our products and deliver the best of security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we, and the whole industry, think about cybersecurity.

Your Career

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test.

Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions.

You're hands-on and comfortable writing code. You keep up with best practices and have a breadth of experience with different languages and frameworks. You're passionate about code quality and automation. You're comfortable driving the implementation and adoption of new frameworks, tools and technologies. You're comfortable crafting robust distributed systems that achieve both short and long-term business goals. You have the ability to articulate a clear technical vision.

Key Responsibilities
  • Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
  • Design and implement real-time security services to our customers
  • Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
  • Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
  • Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
  • Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native solutions
  • Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
  • Mentoring junior developers


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 7+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
  • Hands-on, software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems
  • Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang
  • Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes
  • Proven experience building and maintaining high-scale server-side applications on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure and designing cloud-native solutions
  • Experience in leading and doing projects end to end
  • Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
  • Experience with data infrastructure platforms
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery
  • Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub
  • Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
  • Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute


Preferred Qualifications

  • Exposure to using AI tools and technologies for productivity and building AI agents
  • Knowledge of AI/ML pipelines, Data Science principles, and related technologies.
  • Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal.
  • Knowledge of the DevOps workflow
  • Experience with REST API design, development, and consumption, along with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.


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 - $204,500.00/yr

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
NASDAQ

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