Senior Principal Software Engineer (Prisma Access)

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

The Agentless Access team specializes in Remote Browser Isolation for various use cases including for building capabilities for Prisma Access which allows agentless access for desktop devices and mobile platforms. We aim to build a global service with advanced browser specific remoting protocols and a platform of cutting edge cloud browsers based on Chromium.  We are looking for a highly technical individual, who can play a critical role in building the service at a global scale across desktop and mobile platforms. Our team’s main focus is frontend and backend development, cloud technologies, and engineering of large distributed systems with cost constraints on various clients and with network performance targets. Additional areas of work include designing authentication flows with simple and intuitive UX, flexible and granular policy management as well as management consoles to help admins manage the service efficiently.  Join us now, as the product is being built from the ground up, and help design and mature our service.

Your Impact

• Be a technical lead who can take on core parts of the implementation with autonomy
• Play a major role in designing and maturing the foundational design and research
• End-to-end responsibility for development of new features, including both writing the specs and implementing it
• Participate in full product release cycles, from feature design to version release
• Take a full ownership for features from design to deployment to adoption   

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 6+ years' of experience as a software engineer
• Programming Experience in Go, Python
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming design concepts
• Experience in developing solutions in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and their technologies (Lambda functions, SNS/SQS etc.)
• Security background in general and security programs knowledge in particular – an advantage
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in English
• Attention to details and high behavioral standards
• Strong knowledge of databases SQL, NoSQL, Time series, GraphDB etc.
• Experience building RESTful API services
• Experience with Azure strongly desired but not mandatory
• Strong leadership skills with a can-do attitude
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Additional Information

The Team
You will be part of a growing, passionate, and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects — centered on what we believe is one of the most significant mission statements in the world. We also strive to be the most people-centric company ever! That means we’re constantly working to make your experience amazing, and you are part of the team breaking boundaries of what the workplace can be!

We are committed to bringing our FLEXWORK philosophy. You will be part of a global team for many roles, and we offer employees a choice of work location (office or mostly from home) for most of our roles.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we