Sr. Principal Software Engineer (NGFW Management Software)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

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

Help build what is next. You will be responsible for the design and development of a scalable distributed management plane infrastructure to manage Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation network security solutions.

Sr. Principal Software Engineers are:

• Technical experts that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Experts who deliver on critical business needs and are recognized across the company as go-to engineering resources on given domains
• Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo alto Networks culture
• Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers
• Hands-on engineers that can code and build great products

Your Impact

• Conceptualize, Collaborate and Develop highly scalable Network Management System for managing devices at scale in hybrid deployments
• Define and scope new features for building and improving Logging and Telemetry infrastructure
• Hands-on participation in developing next generation Configuration Management architecture
• 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
• Work with Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
• Recruit and Mentor new team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 14+ years of experience in building large enterprise applications required - 3+ years experience in technical leadership roles in building major apps or subsystems
• Experience managing large scale data in a high-performance distributed appliance deployment
• Track record of improving performance and throughput with limited resources is a plus
• Experience programming in C/C++ is required - Python is a plus
• Experience working with commonly used infrastructure tools like Zookeeper, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch is a plus
• Familiarity with building the data and logging platform - ingesting, processing, and analyzing of logs
• Familiarity with model-driven telemetry, pub-sub architecture, and vendor-specific and open-source options to handling telemetry is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to lead and collaborate with many cross-functional teams with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery
• Experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, peer review, and operations
• Experience building network and security configuration management systems is highly desirable
• Experience building appliance based network management solutions is highly desirable
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent required or equivalent military experience

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 f