Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Edge Service)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

Bring your backend cloud engineering skills to work on the latest cloud software/web applications. Help us deploy and scale the next generation of cloud security utilizing big data and Analytics. We are looking for a motivated engineer to join the team that is building our latest cloud security product - Cloud Edge Services. Our service is industry’s premiere identity services that consistently protects across all networks, clouds and users.

Your Impact

• Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment
• You will work to design, implement and troubleshoot next generation cloud security solutions
• Hands-on participation in developing next generation cloud security architecture
• You will participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offering to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality
• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes
• Foster innovation in the organization

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ year hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following: GO/Java(Primary), Python; Working knowledge of C is highly desirable 
• Excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on experience with cloud distributed systems and high scale designs and in developing high performance distributed software applications
• Experience in cloud technologies like Kafka, Elastic Search, Google Big Query or equivalent
• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms  
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing with strong cloud service trouble-shooting skills.  
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking is highly desirable  
• Experience in GCP or AWS is a plus
• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 10+ years of relevant experience required. 
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude

Additional Information

The Team
You’ll be working in a top tier cybersecurity company and collaborating with some of the brightest minds in technology. Our team doesn’t shy away from tackling big problems. You will help build and support the tools and infrastructure enabling our developers to release the products that our customers depend on to defend against cyberattacks. Joining this dynamic and fast-paced team will give you the opportunity and thrill of resolving the technical and process gaps that hold back productivity.

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.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to lear