Sr Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering)

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.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

Prisma Access™ combines the Internet connectivity/security you need - and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies, it extends the next-generation security protection to all cloud services and to its customers regardless of whether they are on-premise, on remote networks or mobile users. 

As a member of the Palo Alto networks Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering (CIPE) team, the Senior Principal Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining tools that proactively drive the stability of Prisma Access connectivity and global network infrastructure. This role will benefit from close collaboration with other engineering teams.

The Network Team within CIPE is a group that is responsible for designing, building and operating data center networks, backbone networks and cloud networks for PAN at a global scale.

Your Impact

• Proposing new designs and architectures in the area of network transport layer and host networking stacks, including server stacks and mobile stacks
• Design and continue to optimize network solutions based on business requirements, network performance and cost
• Deploy network and find out where the efficiency can be improved with automation during the deployment
• Lead complex troubleshooting and resolve critical or escalated technical issues.
• Participate in periodic on-call rotation

Qualifications

Your Experience

• A Bachelor's degree or higher, computer-related majors, and 7+ years experience in large datacenter network operations or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of experience in setting up cloud infrastructure using OpenStack
• Experience in maintaining and operating large scale private clouds
• Experience practicing DevOps methodology and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience programming with languages like Python, Go, or JavaScript

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don’t wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new